How to type in japanese with WIN XP and 2000

I have a problem....I was hoping to find the solution on my own, but it seems hopeless :sweat: I have followed instructions on typing in Japanese on my new comp, which is on Windows XP Home edition. Before that, I had a computer on Windows 98, so I had to download a global IME. XP is different. I checked here to make sure I did all the right steps, I did. But....my language bar WON'T appear!!!! So, I can only type in English. I can't even switch to Spanish or Japanese. I did the "hotkeys" I set, and I can't even switch that way. Everything is installed, and I checked the settings for it to appear and also set my default language to Japanese.

One time it randomly appeared after a restart, and I used it. Next time I restarted, it was GONE. It won't come back and I don't even know how I got it to appear :( Also, it appeared on my desktop, not in the tray. I rightclicked on the tray to add the language bar to my toolbars in the tray. Language bar is not an option.

Can anyone offer me some advice? Typing in romaji is BEAT. :mad: Tech support for my computer had NO CLUE what I was talking about. No results on M$ support either. No matter what I do, it won't appear! :mad:

kou-chan, can you even get to this stage?
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That's the ONE time it came up, but it was at the top right corner of my screen. No option in my tray for the language bar. It only appeared on the desktop. If I minimized, it would be GONE rather than in the tray. If I closed it, it would never reappear. Once it appeared, the next time I rebooted, it was GONE :mecry: Damn XP can kiss my @$$.

Yeah, I think the way XP handles the language bar is worse than previous WinX versions. Anyways, what *might* help is if you right click the task bar at the bottom of the screen, you should get a menu that lists a bunch of things like:

Taskbar
Cascade windows
Tile windows
blah blah blah...

If you click on the Taskbar submenu, you should be able to select the Language bar. It should pop up on your task bar. After that you should be able to "show language bar" and drag it to wherever you want....

Hope that helps...

mizune wrote:Yeah, I think the way XP handles the language bar is worse than previous WinX versions. Anyways, what *might* help is if you right click the task bar at the bottom of the screen, you should get a menu that lists a bunch of things like:

Taskbar
Cascade windows
Tile windows
blah blah blah...

If you click on the Taskbar submenu, you should be able to select the Language bar. It should pop up on your task bar. After that you should be able to "show language bar" and drag it to wherever you want....

Hope that helps...

I'm pretty sure I tried that, but I don't have the language bar option. Right clicking on my taskbar I get these options:

Toolbars
Cascade Windows
Tile Windows Horizontally
Tile Windows Vertically
Show the Desktop
Task Manager
Lock the Taskbar
Properties

In "Toolbars" submenu, I have these options only:

Address
Windows Media Player
Links
Desktop
Quick Launch
New Toolbar

For New Toolbar, I'd have to direct it to something, but if I can do that w/ the language bar, I don't know how to :mecry: I never thought I was that much of a dope, but I could have sworn I did everything right but I just can't figure out what's wrong :mad:

Ok, I FINALLY got it back on my desktop at least...not sure how, stroke of luck. However, I don't have anything in my tray/taskbar where you could switch that way, like when you boot up it says "EN" for English. Click on it and a menu comes up to switch. Hmm... But my language bar is floating on my desktop. At least I have that now, let's see what happens when I reboot next, LOL. :sweat:

KouSeiya315 wrote:Ok, I FINALLY got it back on my desktop at least...not sure how, stroke of luck. However, I don't have anything in my tray/taskbar where you could switch that way, like when you boot up it says "EN" for English. Click on it and a menu comes up to switch. Hmm... But my language bar is floating on my desktop. At least I have that now, let's see what happens when I reboot next, LOL. :sweat:

thats always the 1st thing the tech support ask: toreboot the machine. well anyhoos, i'm glad you can get your JPN language on.

Hrm...
Computers....Gotta keep those fingers crossed...
^_^;;;

niko2x wrote:thats always the 1st thing the tech support ask: toreboot the machine. well anyhoos, i'm glad you can get your JPN language on.

When the problem started, when I rebooted, it was just gone and would not come back. After playing and stuff, I got it back, posted that above, rebooted, and it was still back :mrgreen: I still have no idea what the problem was or how I fixed it, but I definitely know the settings were correct in the very first place. PC's are weird sometimes. Anyway, it's here, but nothing in my tray. Just floating on the desktop. It does disappear randomly though, but now it at least comes back when I "ask" it to :P

Hi all, I've read the posted instructions for installing .jp input support for XP (home) and all works fine for Office applications, but nothing else.
I have the language bar in my taskbar, with En & Jp avaliable in Office, but in everything else (notepad, outlook, firefox, IE etc) I only have the En option.

I have checked an option in the language bar settings box to enable .jp input support outside of officeXP (global support) but I am still do not see a Jp icon avaliable in the language bar.

Now I know this is not a tech forum (!) but I have tried google & asked on irc many times but have gotten no where.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Domo arigato gozaimas:)
Foobah


(Im fully patched on all concerned programs, running SP2 etc)

Hmmm, that's weird.
If you have the JPN option in your language box, you should be able to type in Japanese in pretty much all the applications you've listed above.
I'm not very computer literate though. :beaten:
So what I list may sound somewhat redundant.
Did you put your cursor in the field that you wanted to type in?
I found that if there is no cursor, then the Japanese language option will not not acess until a cursor is implimented.
That's all I can think about. :beaten: Sorry, I know it's a dumb suggestion, but from a computer non-literate person, it seems like a smart one. :beaten: :hehe:
What system are you running? And did you follow all the steps listed in the first post?

niko2x wrote:Thx for the explaination! Now maybe we can make this a sticky...

I think I'm actually going to do that now.
Especially since this topic gets bumped up so often.
:)

everyone (or mostly everyone) knows how to view type JPN text in windows internet explorer. justgo to the M$ website and d/l the asian or JPN IME, install it, reboot the machine and BAM! you get a language toolbar that you can switch from eng to JPN (or whatever IME you download, for that matter).

My question is: does anyone knows if there is the same functionality in the internet browser opera? it would suck for one to d/l the software install it and finds that that is not possible. i've been looking thru the opera website and it doesn't fully explain it. if anyone knows this plz post and let us know. I am so sick of M$ internet explorer!!!

I don't use Opera, but I don't think it should be a problem. I use Firefox instead of IE and it works just fine.... :woot:

Yep I use Opera, it works. And it works with every app I use.

thank u
much la :woot:

Wow, someone got benefit from all this..... :beaten: :beaten: :beaten:

GOOD LORD!!... This thread is old.... who revives these old threads?? :hehe: :hehe:

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:GOOD LORD!!... This thread is old.... who revives these old threads?? :hehe: :hehe:

I don't know, but I just decided to make it into a sticky.
Since it's getting revived on a regular basis............

ahochaude wrote:Wow, someone got benefit from all this..... :beaten: :beaten: :beaten:

Why the surprise? :crazy: