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Error Installing Spanish Keyboard Layouts

Article ID: 140747

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006


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SYMPTOMS

When you are using the U.S. version of Windows 95, you may receive the following error message if you try to add one of the Spanish keyboard layouts using the Keyboard tool in Control Panel:
Windows could not copy the Spanish (Modern Sort) files. Make sure a disk is in your drive, the file is on the disk, and that the drive door is closed.

CAUSE

This problem is caused by an error in the Multilng.inf file included with the U.S. version of Windows 95. The error is known to affect the following keyboard layouts:
  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • Spanish (Mexican)
  • Spanish (Modern Sort)
  • Spanish (Traditional Sort)

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95. This problem no longer occurs in newer versions of Windows. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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