Datalore Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 I have Longhorn 4029, and I cannot find how to change the version string from "onghornLay omeHay ditionEay" to regular English. It bugs the heck outta me.I've received a lot of questions about the bizarre pig latin that appears in the desktop version string in Windows Longhorn build 4029. Surely this is a fake, right? No, it isn't. According to a source at Microsoft, the company was simply testing its new version-identification scheme, which Microsoft is using to dramatically simplify the way it provides the product name and version number in its OSs. By changing the Windows version string to pig latin, Microsoft can be sure it's correctly propagating to all the places in the UI in which the information is displayed. In earlier Windows versions, changing the product name or version number, as the company did repeatedly with Windows Server 2003, caused a lot of problems because the information had to be changed manually in dozens of locations. Now the company can make fast changes because the information appears only once in the Windows code.<info from WinInfo>Where is this mysterious single piece of code? I'd very much like my LH desktop to say "Longhorn Home Edition". Thanks for any help.
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