Hibernator Localisation. Help me localise to your region! - Page 2

maltic · **30th November 2005, 10:34 PM**

Sorry, you are wrong. The performance counters are locale dependend. Look through the internet and you will find out, that I am right, e.g:

http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/PerfPlugin.html (search for German).

Cheers,
Malte

arkay · **30th November 2005, 10:50 PM**

Wierd... So why when you copy the output from your machine does it display the English versions of the Metrics?

and if it's happy to do that then why wouldn't it be happy to accept the English OR the German equivalents in the code.... Bizarre.....

Refresh my memory. What happened when you tried out v2.0 (with the English names)?

I'm sure you realise to that you can change the localisation file yourself to experiment to get the right order and values.

It's in c:\windows\hibernator_locale.txt. If you had the order wrong before just swap it around and try it again

Cheers,
Arkay.

P.S. I see you're online. Do you have ICQ installed? or we can chat in the chat room (click here, I'll hang out in there for a bit).

maltic · **3rd December 2005, 02:09 AM**

Hi,

this is what I get when I use the Australian values:

Fri Dec 2 17:07:03 2005 : ( STARTUP) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Started.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:03 2005 : ( READ INI) Unable to open Configuration file C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator.ini : No such file or directory using default values.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:03 2005 : (READ LOCALE) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator_locale.txt
Fri Dec 2 17:07:03 2005 : ( COMPLETED) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Completed.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:04 2005 : ( STARTUP) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Started.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:04 2005 : ( READ INI) Unable to open Configuration file C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator.ini : No such file or directory using default values.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:04 2005 : (READ LOCALE) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator_locale.txt
Fri Dec 2 17:07:05 2005 : ( NETSCAN) Found adapter : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Fri Dec 2 17:07:05 2005 : ( NETSCAN) Found adapter : Intel[R] PRO_Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Fri Dec 2 17:07:09 2005 : (SAVE CONFIG) Writing Config file C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator.ini.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:39 2005 : ( COMPLETED) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Completed.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:44 2005 : ( PERFMON) Failed connecting to PC03434 to Add Processor,% Processor Time,_Total information : .
Fri Dec 2 17:07:46 2005 : ( STARTUP) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Started.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:46 2005 : ( READ INI) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator.ini.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:46 2005 : (READ LOCALE) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator_locale.txt
Fri Dec 2 17:07:46 2005 : ( COMPLETED) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Completed.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:53 2005 : ( STARTUP) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Started.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:53 2005 : ( READ INI) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator.ini.
Fri Dec 2 17:07:53 2005 : (READ LOCALE) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator_locale.txt
Fri Dec 2 17:07:53 2005 : ( NETSCAN) Found adapter : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Fri Dec 2 17:07:53 2005 : ( NETSCAN) Found adapter : Intel[R] PRO_Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Fri Dec 2 17:08:05 2005 : ( PERFMON) Failed connecting to PC03434 to Add Processor,% Processor Time,_Total information : .
Fri Dec 2 17:08:05 2005 : ( STARTUP) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Started.
Fri Dec 2 17:08:05 2005 : ( READ INI) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator.ini.
Fri Dec 2 17:08:05 2005 : (READ LOCALE) Read C:\WINDOWS\Hibernator_locale.txt
Fri Dec 2 17:08:05 2005 : ( COMPLETED) C:\WINDOWS\HIBERN~1.SCR Completed.

Cheers,
Malte

arkay · **4th December 2005, 12:12 PM**

Maltic,

Have you had any luck changing the lcoal strings to suit your region?

Cheers,
Arkay.

maltic · **11th December 2005, 05:46 AM**

Hi Arkay,

the settings I provided before are suitable for my region - unfortunately your application do not work with them .... I am using this settings for example in Smartie (LCD plugin) and they are working without any problems.

Cheers,
Malte

TvR · **22nd December 2005, 10:57 AM**

Hi Arkay,

In one of the other threads a registry location is mentioned:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009

The number at the end designates the country (in the above example "009" is for english).

There's a Multi-String Value there called "Counter".
It's possible to export this key, but you can't import an altered key.
It's however possible to copy the text from the english key to the dutch key.

In holland for example the country code is 013.
So the location which designates the counters is at:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\013

I solved the problem by copying the content from an english "Counter" and pasting it (replacing) into a dutch "Counter".

Your program Hibernator saw the counters correct now and worked fine on a dutch version of MCE 2005.

The counters are all proceeded by an instance number.

I think it's more helpfull to you if people copy the content from their localized "Counter" into a text file.
This way you have all the translated counters (in case you want to measure other things as well).

I'm including the dutch "013" and english "009" version of the counters and the corresponding help text as well.

Greetings, Theo.

arkay · **22nd December 2005, 11:01 AM**

Hi Theo,

Fantastic post Bro! Rep points for you.

I looked high and low for somewhere where I could map translations for the perfmon metrics... Never found it.

With this info I'll be able to automate country selection.

Probably won't get done till after Christmas but it's something new to go on!

Thanks again!!!

Cheers,
Arkay.

arkay · **30th December 2005, 01:43 PM**

Hi everyone,

I've finished making the Hibernator locale aware (I hope).

Can those of you with non English installs please download and install this version for me. I'll be very interested to see if it works.

I've used the information from the posts above. The program should now consult the registry to obtain the correct counter names for your locale (based on numbers which I believe are consistant worldwide).

If you have problems please also attach the log file from your windows folder (hibernator.log).

Thanks.

Cheers,
Arkay.

maltic · **31st December 2005, 12:12 AM**

You don´t read my answers right? Look here:

http://www.xpmediacenter.com.au/comm...7333#post37333

The registry keys were posted a long time ago

Nevertheless it still does not work ...

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Malte

TvR · **31st December 2005, 02:29 AM**

Hi Arkay,

I saw an article from Microsoft which might help solve your problem, it's at the following location:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q287159/

Greetings, Theo.

P.S. I didn't try the new version yet as my system isn't having any problems anymore with standby since i've removed the wlan-adapter. But i'll make an image tonight and try your software on the system.