Text on the General Tab in System Properties May Not Be Readable in Danish Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (297687)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2

This article was previously published under Q297687

SYMPTOMS

Some of the text on the General tab in the System tool in Control Panel may not be readable in the Danish-language version of Windows 2000 after you install Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Specifically, the text that indicates the installed amount of memory (RAM) may be on top of other text that identifies the computer type. This text is located directly above the Support Information (Supportoplysninger) button. The "Physical Address Extension" text may also be overwritten.

CAUSE

This problem occurs because the text-box alignment on the General tab is incorrect.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date         Time   Version        Size     File name
   -----------------------------------------------------
   11-Oct-2001  13:44  5.0.2195.4065  125,712  Sysdm.cpl

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

The text that indicates the computer-type information is contained in the following registry location:

Key name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System
Value name: Identifier
Value type: REG_SZ
Value data: AT/AT COMPATIBLE (this is an example)

Physical Address Extension (PAE) support requires an Intel-architecture processor (Pentium Pro or later), more than 4 gigabytes of RAM, and either Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbshell kbWin2000PreSP3Fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB297687