Program that would help me type Chinese characters in IMs and email

I know pinyin but i dunno which program to use to help me type chinese characters
Program that would help me type Chinese characters in IMs and email
I have this toolbar [its by Google, so I can assure you its safe]





It uses pinyin, so there you go..





http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2007...





Oh, btw its some kind of bar thing which you can move around. Just click "鑻?quot; once and it'll turn to chinese. Click "涓?quot; once and it'll turn to english.
Reply:Change your computer's language. If you go to your control panel (given it is a PC) and go to languages. It won't affect any of the menus or anything like that, it will only change the input language. You can switch it to a host of languages, Chinese being one of them. If you do that, then you will be able to type pinyin and have characters appear. That is what I did for my computer; you won't even need to download any shady programs.





1. Go to "Regional and Language Options"





2. Click on the Languages tab





3. Click the Details button





4. Go to "Add"





5. For the keyboard settings, choose Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0





And tada! You now will be able to type pinyin.
Reply:http://ime.sogou.com/dl/sogou_pinyin_35....
Reply:The most used one here.


http://www.sogou.com/pinyin/





just click on the RED button left(涓嬭浇3.5濂ヨ繍鐗? to download