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From: Juan I. Cahis on 7 May 2008 11:08
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!

The problem was that originally, in the Tiger Times (OSX 10.4), my
BootCamp installation was in Spanish. Then, when I upgrade to Leopard
(OSX 10.5.2), I upgraded to the US English edition, updating the
Windows Boot Camp Utilities from the Install DVD (Boot Camp 2.0).

But apparently, the installer never forgot that my original
installation (Boot Camp 1.4) was in Spanish, and that was the reason
that I couldn't update it to BootCamp 2.1

The solution was to use Regedit, search for all the occurrences in
Windows Registry of "Boot Camp" (without the quotes, look at the only
one space between the words "Boot" and "Camp"), and to change all the
subkeys of the found key containing "Utilidades de Boot Camp" to "Boot
Camp Utilities" and all the "Language" subkeys from 1034 to 1033
(Spanish to English codes). Please note that the Language subkeys are
displayed in hexadecimal, so you should display them in decimal, do
the change, and redisplay them in hexadecimal again. And after doing
that for the whole registry, I rebooted and the installation ran OK.

It is incredible how supposedly "Global" Companies as Apple and
Microsoft do these kind of mistakes. Apple should have announced that
the update was for an English Language installation only, and the
installer should have issued a warning or error message describing the
problem, instead to sleep for ever and ever.




Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> wrote:

>Dear friends:
>
>When I try to install the new Apple BootCamp update in my WindowsXP
>partition does nothing. Only a windows with a title of "Starting
>Installation", or similar, appears for a few seconds, and then it
>closes, and nothing happens for hours.
>
>I use Leopard with WinXP, and VMWare 1.2 to be able to access the
>BootCamp partition under OSX too, all of them fully updated.
>
>Any hint?
>
>
>Thanks
>Juan I. Cahis
>Santiago de Chile (South America)
>Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
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