Download Google transliteration IME for your language. For 32 bit, selected option would be
Save the file when prompted. It will download a file name googlehindiinputsetup.exe. On July 16, 2010 downloaded file size was 554 KB (567,624 bytes).
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Locate googleinputsetup.exe and start the installer by double clicking it.Make sure you are still connected to internet.
Based on you security setting on Windows machine, you may get a security warning, “do you want to run this file?” Click on Run.
Installer will connect to internet and would start downloading actual installer
After download finishes, Google stub installer starts actual installer. First screen is End User License agreement.
Please don’t click next as we don’t want to install it this way. Now we need to find out location for actual installer on Windows machine.
Method 1 to locate Google transliteration IME offline installer
Try to find out Google installed software directory. If you have installed any of other Google product before,find the directory of the install. On my computer Google products are installed under c:\Program Files\google, I will refer this directory for next steps.
Browse to directory under c:\Program Files\google and locate C:\Program Files\Google\Update\Download.
You should see a directory (or more than one) with a very long name. This directory name will start with { and ends with }.Directory name will consists of four dashes (-) in it. In my PC directory name is {0FF3CE40-F329-483C-A3F5-03BFCC07A90C}.
Go into directory specified in step 3 above and you should be able to locate a file named googlehindiinputsetup.exe. The name of file is same as that of stub installer however size is bigger. On my machine size of this file is 3.18 MB (3,337,200 bytes). That’s it, you found the offline transliteration IME for Hindi.Use it the way you need.Copy it to machines you need to install Google IME.Process should be same for other languages.
Method 2 using Windows Registry
If for some reason you couldn’t able to locate the directory where Google software are installed, you should use windows registry editor to locate the offline standalone IME installer.
Type “regedit” on command prompt, it will open registry editor.
From menu Edit—>Find, search for Key MUIcache.
It will search for first occurrence of MUIcache key in registry and would highlight it.Do a right click on MUIcache and press export.
Export the MUIcache branch of registry in text file.In this example MUIcache.txt
Open MUIcache.txt in a text editor, like notepad and search for term \Update\Download\.
Eureka!! You found he complete path of standalone Hindi IME installer.Copy the file on a PC on which you would like to install.
There can be many alternative way to achieve this, I illustrated 2 approaches. Hope it will help you in installing Google transliteration in a language of your choice.Did it work for you?
