Configuring the Windows environment

To configure the Windows environment:

1. For each affected computer, set your required language locale.

   Use the same language locale for all affected computers. Discrepancies between locale settings, especially those involving different character sets, can corrupt data as it passes between components.

   1. From the Control Panel, select Change display language.
   2. If the required language is not listed on the Choose a display language drop-down list, click Install/uninstall languages.

      The Choose to install or uninstall display languages window appears.

   3. Click Install display languages.

      The Select the display languages to install window appears.

   4. Click Browse and browse to the location that contains the display language files.
   5. Click Next.

      The display language appears in the Choose a display language drop-down list.

   6. Check for and remove any language that belongs to an ISO group that blocks Latin-1 languages in the ISO-1 group.
   7. Click OK.
2. Specify the active code page for the command-prompt window, either manually or by setting the default. If you set the code page manually, you must set it again each time you open a command-line prompt window. The alternative is specifying the code page default in the Windows registry. Refer to the documentation of your operating system to determine which code page is applicable.

   BMC does not recommend editing the Windows registry unless you have experience working with the registry and you back up the registry before proceeding.

To set the code page manually:

1. Use steps similar to the following, depending on the installed version of Windows:
   • Choose Start => Run, type cmd, and press Enter.
   • Type chcp 1252 and press Enter.
2. If you want to set the code page by default, define the following entry in the registry:

   User Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]

   Value Name: AutoRun

   Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)

   Value Data: chcp 1252

   If the AutoRun entry does not exist in the registry, create it by right-clicking inside the right pane, choosing New => String Value, and specifying AutoRun as the entry name.

   If the entry exists with another value that you want to keep, create a batch file that contains the original value on the first line and the command chcp 1252 on the second line. Save the batch file in a location that is in the path environment variable, and specify the batch file name as the entry value data.

3. Alternatively, you can create a .reg file to update the Microsoft Windows registry:

   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]

   "CompletionChar"=dword:00000000

   "DefaultColor"=dword:00000000

   "EnableExtensions"=dword:00000001

   "AutoRun"="chcp 1252"

4. Set the font of the command prompt window, using the following steps:
   1. Right-click the upper-left corner of the Command Prompt window and select Properties.
   2. Set the font on the Font tab to Lucida Console and click OK.
   3. At the prompt, select Save properties for future windows with same title option to save the properties as a default.

      These changes are set automatically each time a command prompt window is opened.

   4. Click OK.