IME pad for Chinese Taiwan

[wayside]

I installed XP on a old thinkpad t42. Everything went though smoothly
but the IME pad. When I clicked Tools then chose IME pad, nothing
happened. The soft keyboard worked though. I have another laptop
without this issue (I can use mouse to write Chinese).

First of all, I could not find "Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a" in
the list for Keyboard choice. I had to download a program (imecht.exe)
from Microsoft then I can see "Microsoft New Phonetic IME" (without
2002a). I am not sure if this is anything to do with IME pad.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Andrew

[df]

I have the same problem.
I

[xz]

looks like i'm not the only one. shouldn't someone get on with the solving
allready??? This is yr2008!!!

[fy]

I fooled around a bit and eventually got IME pad working.
First, make sure you have this directory:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IME\TINTLGNT I think this directory
contains the "Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a" module. If
you do, then try the following steps:

1. Remove "Chinese (Taiwan)" input method from the language
options, via Control Panel-->Regional and Language
Options-->Languages-->Details.

(I even re-installed East Asian Language files. But I doubt
this is necessary...)

2. Goto the TINTLGNT directory, double click TINTSETP.EXE
and/or TINTLPHR.EXE files. I think one of the files
activates the 2002a IME.

3. Now go back to the language input settings. Select
"Chinese (Taiwan)" again. Now see if "Microsoft New
Phonetic IME 2002a" shows up. For me, it did. Select it
and IME Pad should start working.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

[Temma]

I can't find the two files TINTSETP.EXE
and TINTLPHR.EXE you mentioned under the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IME\TINTLGNT,
which is empty. Can you tell me how to install those two files?

Thanks,

Temma

[fy]

I don't know how I owned these files, since I have XP Home
edition at home, and I didn't have Office XP suite... But
check out the following links. This might be an even better
solution, because the version of the IME is upgraded to 2003.

1) Download files from:
http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/windowsxp/ime/windowsxp.htm

2) For assistance on installation, check out:
edu.ocac.gov.tw/icice2005/ICICE2005/html/paper2/B03.pdf

For me, I first downloaded and installed tintsetup.msi. I
was asked to first uninstall something (in Chinese) before I
could install the new version. May have to re-run the setup
file after un-install--I don't quite remember. Then, I
needed to reboot the system, and installed sintsetup.msi to
use IME Pad.

Hope this works for you.

On Aug 23, 5:58 am, Temma <Te...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

[sss]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I experienced exact the same or similar symptom/ problem while trying to
install traditional Chineses Taiwan IME on my PC. I have Sony PC running on
MS XP with Office 2003. I did not see those 2 .EXE files in my
c:\windows\systems32\IME\TINTLIT directory. So as you suggested I went to
download, save, open 2 msi files from
http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/windowsxp/ime/windowsxp.htm.
I rebooted. Then go to 'Add Input Language'. I still can not see "MS new
phonetic IME 2002a' as one choice.

My IME is not working right yet. I thought about purchasing a pad device
called "Shaw Mong Tien" to input via handwriting. But I feel like to try
something free first before I spend about $100 on a new device.

My email is st6...@gmail.com. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
PLEASE REMOVE MY EMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU DECIDE TO POST THIS EMAIL.
Thanks,
Shirley

[utheman]

fy,

Brilliant. you are amazing. You should work in MicroSoft and be they
technical writing guy. They should pay someone like you to work for them
instead of their existing ones who only either write garbage or ask
irrelevent questions instead of helping you.

[Siusk]

fy, you are great helper! I have my problem solved.