Help:Downloading and Installing UTAU on Windows 7 With AppLocale

The goal of this article is to describe how to install UTAU on a non-japanese Windows Seven computer, and also without changing the locale to Japanese, using Microsoft's AppLocale. As this is a bit tricky, I thought I could share my experience.

Installing AppLocale
First, install AppLocale: it can be found on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx. On this page, search for AppLocale. Select the most recent version: you get a 1,391,104 bytes file named "apploc.msi". Installing it on Windows 7 is tricky and produces an error like this:



Use the following method, found on http://blog.wentoday.com/?p=136: 1. Click Start, type "cmd" in the search box. 2. In the list, right click the "cmd" icon, and select "run as administrator" 3. In the DOS command, copy the apploc.msi file into c:\, e.g. with "copy f:\program\apploc.msi c:\" 4. In the DOS command, type "c:" then "cd \" 5. In the DOS command, enter "appLoc.msi" to run the AppLocale installer. 6. Once this is done, you may delete the "appLoc.msi" file in c:\, because it is no more useful: "del appLoc.msi" 7. That's it, you may now close the DOS command window.



Installing UTAU
Now, get UTAU from http://utau2008.xrea.jp/. If you never installed UTAU, get the Installer version "v0.2.76 インストーラ", because it will also install the VisualBasic 6 runtime on your computer. For an update, you may get the ZIP version "v0.2.76 zipアーカイブ" instead. In our case, i.e. installing UTAU on a Windows 7 computer without changing its locale to Japanese, we will need both these files. You get two files, utau0276inst.exe (3,106,816 bytes) and utau0276.zip (1,074,635 bytes).

As it is not a Unicode program, we will launch the UTAU installer through AppLocale:


 * Select "Start" -> "Microsoft AppLocale" -> "AppLocale" to start AppLocale.


 * Click Next.


 * Select "Launch an Application".


 * Browse to the location of utau0276inst.exe.




 * Click Next.


 * AppLocale detects that the installer is in Japanese.




 * Click Next.


 * We will only do it once, but let's create a shortcut anyway: check the box and name the program "Utau Installer".




 * There is now a new "Utau Installer" entry in "Start" -> "Microsoft AppLocale" -> "AppLocale".


 * Also, AppLocale starts the UTAU installer. The first panel says "Installer will install UTAU on your computer".


 * Click "次へ" = "Next".




 * It is better to install Utau outside of "Program Files", because this directory is protected by Windows, and this somewhat conflicts with Utau wanting to put its own configuration files. Use e.g. "c:\Tools\Utau" instead.


 * Select "All users" like in the image below, or "Just me" in the radio button selection at the bottom of the screen.




 * Click "次へ" = "Next".


 * The panel says "Installer will now install UTAU on your computer"...


 * Click "次へ" = "Next".




 * A screen is displayed with a progress bar. When done, there is a new shortcut on the desktop.

There could be a Windows 7 warning: "This program could require administrator privileges". Select "This program is working". We are now done with the installation.

First-time running UTA, fixing what is not working
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