Microsoft Support HotFix Request Form
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Afrikaans (South Africa) af-ZA
Albanian (Albania) sq-AL
Amharic (Ethiopia) am-ET
Arabic (Algeria) ar-DZ
Arabic (Bahrain) ar-BH
Arabic (Egypt) ar-EG
Arabic (Iraq) ar-IQ
Arabic (Jordan) ar-JO
Arabic (Kuwait) ar-KW
Arabic (Lebanon) ar-LB
Arabic (Libya) ar-LY
Arabic (Morocco) ar-MA
Arabic (Oman) ar-OM
Arabic (Qatar) ar-QA
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) ar-SA
Arabic (Syria) ar-SY
Arabic (Tunisia) ar-TN
Arabic (U.A.E.) ar-AE
Arabic (Yemen) ar-YE
Armenian (Armenia) hy-AM
Assamese (India) as-IN
Azeri (Latin, Azerbaijan) az-Latn-AZ
Basque (Basque) eu-ES
Belarusian (Belarus) be-BY
Bengali (Bangladesh) bn-BD
Bengali (India) bn-IN
Bosnian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) bs-Cyrl-BA
Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) bs-Latn-BA
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) bg-BG
Catalan (Catalan) ca-ES
Chinese (Simplified) zh-CHS
Chinese (Traditional) zh-CHT
Chinese (Hong Kong) zh-HK
Chinese (China) zh-CN
Chinese (Singapore) zh-SG
Chinese (Taiwan) zh-TW
Croatian (Croatia) hr-HR
Czech (Czech Republic) cs-CZ
Danish (Denmark) da-DK
Dutch (Belgium) nl-BE
Dutch (Netherlands) nl-NL
English (Australia) en-AU
English (Canada) en-CA
English (Great Britain) en-GB
English (New Zealand) en-NZ
English (Ireland) en-IE
English (South Africa) en-ZA
English (Jamaica) en-JM
English (Caribbean) en
English (Belize) en-BZ
English (Trinidad) en-TT
English (United Kingdom) en-UK
English (United States) en-US
Estonian (Estonia) et-EE
Faeroese fo
Farsi fa
Filipino (Philippines) fil-PH
Finnish (Finland) fi-FI
French (Belgium) fr-BE
French (Canada) fr-CA
French (France) fr-FR
French (Switzerland) fr-CH
French (Luxembourg) fr-LU
Gaelic (Scotland) gd
Galician (Galician) gl-ES
Georgian (Georgia) ka-GE
German (Austria) de-AT
German (Germany) de-DE
German (Luxembourg) de-LU
German (Liechtenstein) de-LI
German (Switzerland) de-CH
Greek (Greece) el-GR
Gujarati (India) gu-IN
Hausa (Latin, Nigeria) ha-Latn-NG
Hebrew (Israel) he-IL
Hindi (India) hi-IN
Hungarian (Hungary) hu-HU
Icelandic (Iceland) is-IS
Igbo (Nigeria) ig-NG
Indonesian (Indonesia) id-ID
Inuktitut (Latin, Canada) iu-Latn-CA
Irish (Ireland) ga-IE
Italian (Italy) it-IT
Italian (Switzerland) it-CH
Japanese (Japan) ja-JP
Kannada (India) kn-IN
Kazakh (Kazakhstan) kk-KZ
Khmer (Cambodia) km-KH
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) rw-RW
Kiswahili (Kenya) sw-KE
Konkani (India) kok-IN
Korean (Johab) ko
Korean (Korea) ko-KR
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) ky-KG
Lao (Lao) lo-LA
Latvian (Latvia) lv-LV
Lithuanian (Lithuania) lt-LT
Luxembourgish (Luxembourg) lb-LU
Macedonian (Macedonia) mk-MK
Malay (Brunei Darussalam) ms-BN
Malay (Malaysia) ms-MY
Malayalam (India) ml-IN
Maltese (Malta) mt-MT
Maori (New Zealand) mi-NZ
Marathi (India) mr-IN
Nepali (Nepal) ne-NP
Norwegian, Bokmal (Norway) nb-NO
Norwegian, Nynorsk (Norway) nn-NO
Oriya (India) or-IN
Pashto (Afghanistan) ps-AF
Persian fa-IR
Polish (Poland) pl-PL
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT
Punjabi (India) pa-IN
Quechua (Peru) quz-PE
Rhaeto-Romanic rm
Romanian (Moldova) ro-MO
Romanian (Romania) ro-RO
Russian (Moldova) ru-MO
Russian (Russia) ru-RU
Sami (Lappish) sz
Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia) sr-Cyrl-CS
Serbian (Latin, Serbia) sr-Latn-CS
Sesotho (South Africa) nso-ZA
Setswana (South Africa) tn-ZA
Sinhala (Sri Lanka) si-LK
Slovak (Slovakia) sk-SK
Slovenian (Slovenia) sl-SI
Sorbian sb
Spanish (Argentina) es-AR
Spanish (Bolivia) es-BO
Spanish (Chile) es-CL
Spanish (Colombia) es-CO
Spanish (Costa Rica) es-CR
Spanish (Dominican Republic) es-DO
Spanish (Ecuador) es-EC
Spanish (El Salvador) es-SV
Spanish (Guatemala) es-GT
Spanish (Honduras) es-HN
Spanish (Mexico) es-MX
Spanish (Nicaragua) es-NI
Spanish (Panama) es-PA
Spanish (Paraguay) es-PY
Spanish (Peru) es-PE
Spanish (Puerto Rico) es-PR
Spanish (Spain) es-ES
Spanish (Venezuela) es-VE
Spanish (Uruguay) es-UY
Swedish (Finland) sv-FI
Swedish (Sweden) sv-SE
Sutu sx
Tamil (India) ta-IN
Tatar (Russia) tt-RU
Telugu (India) te-IN
Thai (Thailand) th-TH
Tsonga ts
Tswana tn
Turkish (Turkey) tr-TR
Ukrainian (Ukraine) uk-UA
Urdu (Pakistan) ur-PK
Uzbek (Latin, Uzbekistan) uz-Latn-UZ
Venda ve
Vietnamese (Vietnam) vi-VN
Welsh (United Kingdom) cy-GB
Wolof (Senegal) wo-SN
Xhosa (South Africa) xh-ZA
Yiddish ji
Yoruba (Nigeria) yo-NG
Zulu (South Africa) zu-ZA
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MS Hotfix Resources:
MSDN Blog:
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MSKB:
Hotfix Request Web Submission Form
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MSKB:
Hotfix Online Request
MSKB:
Windows 98 + 98 SE Hotfixes Information
MVP Blog:
Requesting MS hotfixes online - generate request
Hotfixr:
Hotfix Request Form
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THFS:
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MSFN forum
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MSFN:
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