The Open Access Labs computers are equipped with various keyboard language and locale settings. These are user settings that are relatively simple to change and set up.

Here are general instructions for adding a language to a roaming profile for the Open Access Labs.

Note: Use of individual language or locale options is left to the user. We can only instruct on how to add the option to your profile. This document should provide enough information to set up the language or locale of your choice.

1. Go to the Control Panel by clicking Start > Settings > Control Panel (see Figure 1).



Figure 1. Accessing the Control Panel

2. In the Control Panel, select Regional Options (see Figure 2).



Figure 2. Select Regional Options in the Control Panel
 

3. The Regional Options dialog box opens. Click the Input Locales tab as seen in Figure 3.



Figure 3. Input Locales tab of the Regional Options dialog box
 

4. Click Add to open the Add Input Locale dialog box (see Figure 4).



Figure 4. Add Input Locale dialog box

5. Select another locale (Japanese in this example) and click OK (see Figure 5).



Figure 5. Selecting another locale

6. You have now returned to the Regional Options dialog box, which should look something like Figure 6.



Figure 6. Regional Options dialog box with new locale

7. Click OK and the added language SHOULD now roam with the user.
8. To change between your selected languages, you should see a small icon in the Task bar near the clock. By default, it shows "EN" for English. Click this icon (see Figure 7).



Figure 7. EN icon in the Task bar

9. In this example, you can change it to Japanese, which changes the icon to the ones shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9 (depending on what applications are open or what options you are trying to use from the language locale).



Figure 8. Japanese icon in the Task bar



Figure 9. Japanese icon with other options

For More Help

If you need more assistance, please feel free to ask the CIS Support Staff in any Open Access Lab, or call Help Desk Central at (979) 845-8300.