Anilrgowda

You may have noticed if you are tying to install a language pack that it is
just a big CAB files and the instructions in Windows Vista help tells you to
go to reginal settings,etc, etc.....so how do you automate this? Well that
is really running a file called Lpksetup.exe which you can automate using
the following info...

The Lpksetup.exe tool must run on a running Windows operating system. This
scenario is useful if you change the installed language of a running Windows
operating system.

Lpksetup.exe is available with all default Windows installations.

Lpksetup Command-Line OptionsYou can use Lpksetup to perform unattended or
silent-mode language pack operations.

Lpksetup runs only on an online Windows operating system.

Lpksetup.exe Command-Line OptionsThe following command-line options are
available for Lpksetup.exe:

lpksetup.exe {/i [{* | language}] | /u language} [/r] [/p
language_pack_path] [/s] [/f]

Option

Description

/i

Installs the specified language packs. Cannot be used with the /u option. If
you do not include * or language after the /I option, the program will start
and you can install through the user interface (UI).

*

Specifies a wildcard character that represents all language packs found in
language_pack_path or the directory where Lpksetup.exe is located.

language

Specifies the language pack or packs to be installed or uninstalled. Use the
format language-REGION for each language specified, where language is the
lowercase ISO 639 language code and REGION is the uppercase ISO 3166-1
country/region identifier.

/u

Uninstalls the specified language packs. Cannot be used with the /I option.
If you do not include language after the /u option, the program will start
and you can uninstall through the UI.

/r

Suppresses the need to restart after an operation is complete. A message
will be logged to the event log about the need to restart.

/p path

Indicates the path of the language packs to install.

path

Can be a directory or a folder path.

language_pack_path Performs a silent and unattended operation that requires
no user input. The UI is suppressed.

/s

Performs a silent and unattended operation that requires no user input. The
UI is suppressed.

/f

If the computer must restart, forces a restart even if there are other users
logged on to the computer.

Examples:

This example installs all language packs that are located on installation
media.

lpksetup.exe /i * /p path

This example uninstalls two language packs. Lpksetup will be started in GUI
mode but will not require user intervention.

lpksetup.exe /u ja-JP es-ES

This example installs three language packs stored on a remote computer.

lpksetup.exe /i ja-JP en-US es-ES /r /s /p \\networkpath\languagepackfolder