Default Regional Locale differs in registry to GUI

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Dan B

We have a clustered W2k server which has been set to
default regional locale US.

We need to correct this to UK. We are making this change
via the Control Panel applet, setting the Default locale
to United Kingdom.

However, after rebooting, we notice that although this
change appears to have been recognised in the Control
Panel applet, if we check the registry key, it still says
US and locale=0000409. The registry key we are looking in
is:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International

The Country value should read United Kingdom not United
States and the code should be 00000809.

Comparing this with our other servers, it would seem that
this is not ususal behaviour.

Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem? Is it
adviseable to manually correct this in the registry?

Thanks

Dan
 
Dan B wrote in
We have a clustered W2k server which has been set to
default regional locale US.

We need to correct this to UK. We are making this change
via the Control Panel applet, setting the Default locale
to United Kingdom.

However, after rebooting, we notice that although this
change appears to have been recognised in the Control
Panel applet, if we check the registry key, it still says
US and locale=0000409. The registry key we are looking in
is:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International

The Country value should read United Kingdom not United
States and the code should be 00000809.

Comparing this with our other servers, it would seem that
this is not ususal behaviour.

Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem? Is it
adviseable to manually correct this in the registry?
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Since HKU\.default is only for the system account, I would check also
at
HKCU\Control Panel\International\

As to why?, I don't know. And nothing known here about servers in a
cluster either.

For New Accounts the settings must be made in the
<profile root>\Default User\ntuser.dat hive file on disk.
 
Dan B wrote in
We have a clustered W2k server which has been set to
default regional locale US.

We need to correct this to UK. We are making this change
via the Control Panel applet, setting the Default locale
to United Kingdom.

However, after rebooting, we notice that although this
change appears to have been recognised in the Control
Panel applet, if we check the registry key, it still says
US and locale=0000409. The registry key we are looking in
is:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International

The Country value should read United Kingdom not United
States and the code should be 00000809.

Comparing this with our other servers, it would seem that
this is not ususal behaviour.

Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem? Is it
adviseable to manually correct this in the registry?
Click to expand...

Since HKU\.default is only for the system account, I would check also
at
HKCU\Control Panel\International\

As to why?, I don't know. And nothing known here about servers in a
cluster either.

For New Accounts the settings must be made in the
<profile root>\Default User\ntuser.dat hive file on disk.
 
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