how to change menu language

[mopkrayz]

i have installed UE italian version and all menus displayed rightly in italian.

however when i uninstalled UE and reinstalled it again, this time in English, the menus on top still display in Italian. How can I change them to show permanently in English?

[Mofi]

Delete the 3 files

Uedit32.mnu
Uedit32.pmu
Uedit32.tbr

in the directory where UltraEdit has it's ini-file uedit32.ini and then start UltraEdit. For new installations the ini-file should be in your personal application data directory, which is by default a hidden directory (turn on displaying hidden files and folders in Windows Explorer). For an English WinXP it is by default (but not on my computer)

C:\Document and Settings\YOUR USERNAME\Application Data\IDMComp\UltraEdit\

Also look into the Advanced.* and Basic.* text config files in the same directory, if they are with English texts. If not, close Ultraedit and delete it too and start again to let UltraEdit create it again in English.

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Since UE v14 with it's multi-environment feature it is necessary to delete much more files to change the language. The files are again in the directory of the currently used INI - default path see above. The files to delete while UltraEdit is not running are: *.mb1 (menus) and *.pb1 (popup menus), maybe also *.te1 which contains language specific predefined templates. *.in1 contains environment specific INI settings which are not language dependent, *.tb1 contains the toolbars for an environment which are also not language dependent. But delete also *.in1, *.tb1 and *.te1 for an environment with a language specific file name. Per default following files are created by English UltraEdit v14 and later:

Advanced.mb1
Advanced.pb1
Advanced.tb1
Notepad Replacement.in1
Notepad Replacement.mb1
Notepad Replacement.pb1
Notepad Replacement.tb1
Notepad Replacement.te1
Power User.in1
Power User.mb1
Power User.pb1
Power User.tb1
Power User.te1
Programmer.in1
Programmer.mb1
Programmer.pb1
Programmer.tb1
Programmer.te1
System Administrator.in1
System Administrator.mb1
System Administrator.pb1
System Administrator.tb1
System Administrator.te1
Technical Writer.in1
Technical Writer.mb1
Technical Writer.pb1
Technical Writer.tb1
Technical Writer.te1
Web Developer.in1
Web Developer.mb1
Web Developer.pb1
Web Developer.tb1
Web Developer.te1

If there are "uedit32.??0" files like "uedit32.tb0" (exactly "ini-name.??0") you maybe need to delete these files too. Such files are present if you have a customized menu or toolbar saved with a different name to avoid changes on update as I have done for my preferred toolbar, but you have switched in the past at least once between existing default menus/toolbars and your customized menus/toolbars.

By the way: If you want to change the menu language without deletion of the profile files, just click with right mouse button into a free area of the menu and choose a different menu. Same can be done for toolbars.

The management (deletion/creation) of the menus and toolbars can be done also from within UltraEdit. Click with right mouse button into a free area of the menu or toolbar and choose Manage Menu/Toolbar Configurations or open Advanced - Configuration - Toolbars / Menus - Management and use the buttons Manage ... in this dialog. Complete environments can be managed (deleted/created/selected) at View - Environments.

[mopkrayz]

thanks a lot ot worked.
files were in c:\windows

Note by Mofi: The windows directory was the default for UltraEdit installations pre v10.20 and is still the default for installations on Windows 98 (where normally no environment variable APPDATA exists). On updates to later versions UltraEdit continues using existing configurations as much as possible and therefore continues to use the files in the windows directory.

[mrakomor]

I am afraid it does not work in my case. First time I erased here mentioned files, it did not work. Then I erased the whole Ultraedit directory. Files with menu are recreated, but in German.

[Mofi]

First check if you have deleted the correct files. The user application data directory is user specific. If you install UE with an admin account and then use it with a restricted account (different login name), you have everything twice. Use the admin account to delete all 9 files for ALL users.

If this does not help, it looks like also your UltraEdit installation is mixed because the ueres.dll in the UltraEdit program directory is still the German version and not the English version. Delete the 3 uedit.*, the 3 Advanced.* and the 3 Basic.* files again (for all users) and then run uesetup.exe again with repair installation to fix the problem with the wrong resource DLL.

[mrakomor]

The problem was with the remaining DLL. Thank you.