Inez,
I had the same problem. We wrote directly to Microsoft asking for a patch in the desired language. The patch works, but it allows to set the memory only to about 1.4GB (on a XP, SP2 with 2GB RAM).
Adrian
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Adrian Spoerri-Fahrni
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Bern
Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
[email protected]
Tel. +41 31 631 35 54
-----Original Message-----
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:24:50 +0200
>From: "I.A.C. van de Snepscheut" <[email protected]>
>Subject: st: windows xp, large dataset and memory problem
>
>Hello
>
>I use stata 9.1 and I have a dataset of 1G. When I set memory on 1G I
>get the message op. sys. refuses to provide memory. Than I wanted to
>download the hotfix, but I then got the message "Setup cannot update
>your windows XP files because the language installed on your system is
>different from the update language." According to my colleague I have
>a 32-bit computer. Does anyone know the answer for my problem???
>
>Inez
>
>
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