Installing CJK in XP Pro without disk?

[comorbid]

Hey, everyone. I've been having a rather constant issue at work. I work on campus, @ the IT Help Desk. More often than not, on my night shifts, it's pretty dead. During this dead time, I might do homework, watch a movie, play City of Heroes... you know, do whatever to keep myself busy/awake/sane.

The problem is, every semester when they wipe the laptop that we use after-hours, I have to keep reminding them to install CJK support so I can do my Japanese homework.

It wouldn't be half as much of a problem if I had XP Pro at home, as I could just bring my own disk and pop it in. But I run XP Home, and apparently Home and Pro CJK support are two completely different animals. Animals that won't install on each other's framework (yes, I've tried).

I've tried searching the Microsoft site, but apparently I'm either not searching "properly," or MS just doesn't know how to label/tag its informational pages. So, is there a directory I can grab the installation from (in a .cab file, maybe), or perhaps a 3rd-party IME I could use that won't expire before the semester ends?

Or am I just gonna have to start beating my co-workers over the head with the laptop in question and hope they have some sort of Pavlovian response?

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Maybe ?

Could you download it to an inexpensive external drive or other external storage do-dad and reload it when it gets erased? Maybe use some cheap back-up program to do it?

Uncle Frank

 

[comorbid]

I probably could - I have a thumb drive and an iPod - I just have no clue where I'd find the files. If nothing else, I can just harass-- er... tell someone I need the XP Pro disk the next time I go in, but no one was there today who could have gotten it.

 

[iwuvvleskaylee]

if you need the files to install, just go to a japanese website (NHK) and there you'll find a popup. It'll install, and the IME may (i don't know though) may get installed with it. If not, i heard that there's somthing called ajax IME... Not to mention, there are several things on the microsoft site to look for if neither of those work...

 

[kameron]

something which i made which miight work...
http://www.users.on.net/~drneale/jime

It's an HTML-based IME, meaning it uses your web browser to type in japanese. As long as you're able to view Japanese webpages it should work. Unfortunately it only supports hiragana/katakana. kanji processing is too much for a client-end web browser to process.

Just go to the textbox and type in romaji, it'll get turned into hiragana or katakana depending on which option you've chosen. You can highlight the japanese and copy and paste it. To clear the textbox press F5. I hope this helps..