Tips&Tricks: How to prepare your system to run Alicia Online – Or What to do if Alicia Won’t work – Step-by-Step Walkthrough

Step 1 – You need to install Korean Language Pack.

If you have Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise.
How to install Language Packs you can read in Microsoft’s support website. You will need to install MUI – Multilingual User Interface packs, which are available only to W7 Ultimate/Enterprise versions.

If you have OTHER versions of Windows 7.
Go here: Alicia Online: Step-by-step guide on how to run it on Windows 7 Professional / Windows 7 Home using Vistalizator

If you have Vista.
You poor tormented soul, i cannot help you… Okay, as far as i know, only Vista Ultimate and Vista Enterprise are allowed to install MUI packs. There is a help page on Microsoft on how to install additional language packs in Vista. Vista Basic, Premium and Business are pretty much screwed just like the corresponding versions of Windows 7. I have heard of a tool called “Vista Multi-User Language Interface Hacker”, you may want to check it out. But generally, you’re on your own here, because i don’t own any Vista versions and i never did, i know nothing of this abomination of Microsoft.

If you have Windows XP, NT or 2000.
Language Packs on any systems below Vista had no version restrictions, so if you own any of these you can install new languages easily. Microsoft also has a help page on how to install language packs in XP, NT or 2000.

If you’re trying to install MUI via Windows Upgrade and it’s not in the list:
1) Check if maybe you have it already.
2) Google for direct download links. There are plenty of them.

Step 2 – Setting language setting in order to run Alicia Online
All of the example screenshots below were taken in Windows 7 Ultimate. If you own Vista, XP, etc. look into your system, it’s not so very different from what I’m showing here.

Go to Control Panel > Region and Language and set Current language for non-Unicode programs to Korean:

You will have to restart your system for the changes to work. After that, you can try to launch Alicia, proceed to this post:
How to run Alicia Online – Step-by-Step Walkthrough

Fixing problems in case Alicia won’t run.

If after doing Step 2 Alicia won’t run, you may want to try taking some of the following measures, or if it keeps refusing to work, do all of them at the same time.

Change font settings.
Go to Control panel > Fonts > Font settings and UNCHECK “Hide fonts based on language settings”.

Change system location.
In the same dialogue as in Step 2, change Current location to Korea:

Change system language.
You can do it in the same dialogue as in Step 2, in a list below “Choose a display language”.

Note, that after you press Apply, the system will ask you to restart in order to apply the changes, and when it starts again, all interface will be in Korean. So you may want to save a shortcut to Region and Language settings somewhere.

How to change system language back to your while your Windows is all Korean.

Open Start and select the fifth option from the top, Control Panel:

Go to Region and Language:

Open 3rd tab from the left. It’s the same screen where you set Korean as system language.

A list of other posts about Alicia Online can be found here:
Alicia Online: Fresh News, Tips and All You Wanted to Know