Windows NT4 - Adding Hebrew Language Setting

NOTE: This is an old, outdated web page. Instead, please download the Yiddish Keyboard Layouts Installer and you will have the most current, updated instructions. This page is remaining on the web only temporarily - until the Yiddish Keyboard Layout installer will be available on CD for those who wish to avoid large downloads.

These steps were graciously provided by Gyula "Ziggy" Zsigri (of http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/gyula.html and http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/gyula.html).

1. Open the Langpack folder on your Windows NT 4.0 CD-ROM.

2. Right-click on Hebrew.inf and left-click on Install. (NOTE : Some languages require files from the I386 folder as well as the Langpack folder. If you are prompted for the location of a file that is not in the Langpack folder, specify the I386 folder and then return to the Langpack folder the next time you are prompted for a file.)

3. Restart Windows.

4. Open My Computer, Control Panel, Keyboard and select the Language tab.

5. Click on the Add button, select Hebrew and click OK.
   (If you want to use an alternative keyboard layout then click on the Properties button, select your preferred layout and click OK.)

6. Make sure that Left Alt+Shift is selected for Switch Languages and that "Enable indicator on taskbar" is checked and click OK to finish the installation.

7. You may now OK your way out of these Settings windows. At this point, you should see a little blue box in the lower right-hand corner area of your Windows Taskbar which says EN for English. Try toggling back and forth to HE by hitting Shift+Alt (or whatever hot keys you set up, above, if you changed the default.) Go back to EN. (You've got some kind of Hebrew now, but not Yiddish yet. )

8. Return to previous instructions for further steps.

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