Microsoft recently released a patch for Windows Vista (kb 955020) that updates the English and German language dictionary of Windows Vista to include these five words:
Obama, Nazr, Friendster, Klum and Racicot.
That’s all it does – add five new words to the English and German dictionaries in Vista – but you’ll be very surprised to know that this patch still weighs a whooping 56 MB as pointed by Register.
Perhaps the patch completely replaces the existing Vista dictionaries with new files but its still an interesting observation.
If you like to save yourself from the trouble of downloading a 56 MB file for the sake of adding five words that you’ll rarely use, just write these words in a document, right click and and add them to the Custom.dic dictionary.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/adding-words-in-windows-vista-dictionary/3883/
Tags: feature, windows vista, Internet, Tumblelog
Reader Comments
It replaces the entire dictionary, hence the size.
Written by Kris @ Fresh Focus on 07.14.08
claims that Microsoft is a bloatware weren’t false :-) Now I am assured and all set to switch to Linux
Written by Anirudh S on 07.14.08
Eeeesh.
BTW. There’s a minor typo in the last line for the word ‘click’. :-)
Written by Umang Saini on 07.14.08
O man, article is good but in last line, wht’s this
“right dick and and add”
spelling mistakes can’t be accepted in such a great blog. Especially when the article is about is Dictionary :D
Written by rakesh juyal on 07.14.08
Obama, Nazr, Friendster, Klum and Racicot. – Heavyweigt to handle. Even amit pased thru its effects ( (Click click !!)
Written by Shanker Bakshi on 07.14.08
Haha, I still have ‘dcik’ in my feed instead of ccilk :P
Written by Navin on 07.14.08
Replace a dictionary to add five words! Who thought of this?!
Written by Falkor on 07.15.08
Oh, I thought the typo was actually on the word ‘click.’
I thought the right spelling was k-i-c-k…
Written by MamaPapaXP on 08.27.08