How to make a .UL file.

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I used windows-xp-x86-ENU.ul to make windows-xp-x86-NLD.ul (Dutch)

I just edited the English version in Notepad, and saved it as a Dutch version.

(I just prefer Notepad, not used to work with .XLM files..)

There may be a better way to do things, but giving an example on this forum may be useful.

Note: I just saw Martin's post here:

He is Right. My method does not include the change of Descriptions or Links.

But if you want to do that too, it may be easier to work in Excel in stead of Notepad. But anyway..

First this: How to retrieve URL's from updates in an other language?

JCarle had a good answer:

On the page of an update: first change to your Language..

Then click Edit > View Source..

In the Source Window: Click Edit > Find > type in: "window.open".

If you scroll a touch to the right, you'll see the HTTP download URL.

But I used a Download Manager, i.c. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP).

When I click the Download button of an update in my language,

DAP immediately showes the URL, and it can be copied.

How I did it..

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Right click the English version of the .UL file, and open it with Notepad.

(I choose always to open in Notepad, but Excel-users may not.)

Save the file though "Save as", and change the name a little bit:

Change ENU to the 3 characters of your language. (example: Dutch = NLD)

In the file itself, on line 2: also change the 3 characters of the language.

Don't change the date: you will not get more updates then in the English version.

All updates are in a row.

Each update begins with <update id = ....> and stops at: "</update>

Start with the first update.

Copy the file name of the update. Thats everything between <filename> and </filename>

Go to www.microsoft.com.

Above in the search-field, paste the name, and click Search..

This leads to a Search Page. Leave that open, until all the work is done.

Changing the first update:

Right click the Link "Download details: update for..", and open it in a new window.

At Choose Language: choose your language, and click Change.

Some updates (about 5) require Validation of your Windows installation.

That means, your Windows has to be legal, or "made" legal.

So click the button next to "validation required". That gives the download page.

Now there are two methods to copy the URL of the download:

1. JCarle's: view the source code to see the URL,and copy it, or..

2. Having a download manager like DAP: Just click Download, and copy..

Close the Update Page, and close DAP.

In the .UL file, in the first update, select everything between <url> and </url>

Then paste (the new URL) over that.

Also change the file name:

Just change "ENU" to the 3 characters of your language, that's all.

(If the name does not contain "ENU", then nothing has to be changed.)

Ready.

Do all (73) Updates in this way. So:

- Copy the English name of the file.

- Paste it in the Microsoft Search Page, and click Search..

- Right click the Link "Download Details...", and open in a new Window.

- Choose your language, and click Change.

- Validate, if asked. (only 5 updates asked for that.)

- Click Download. (or use JCarle's method)

- Copy the URL (in the download manager, or in the Source Code.)

- Close the download page, or the source page, and the update page.

- In the file: select the current URL (= everything between <URL> and </URL>) and paste the new URL over it.

- In the file name (= everything between <filename> and </filename>) change ENU to your language.

Done all 73 of them (or more in the future)? Save the file! Done!

WOD.exe will automatically see the file, if it is in the same folder.

There where 2 exceptions:

1. KB896344.

It's only there in English and japanese. My dutch XP refused that because of the language.

So appearenty the file is only related to those versions.

2. KB917344.

It had not only one download button, but 15 or so for each language.

DAP didn't pick it up, so you have to use JCarle's method.

I didn't know his method then, and used download manager Getright for that.

But in Getright it is more work to retrieve the URL.

But so I found out, that the file names of the files in my language, could not be found via Google or the Microsoft site.

Note: WUD failed to start here once, due to a fault in my file.

The cause was a URL that was either too long, or had a fault.

Appearently WUD is very sensitive to that. But that is a good warning.

Good Luck!