Hi David,

That worked for the Location! Nice one! As for the Language Bar, I guess
I'll just have to keep on fighting that one... its irritating the hell out of
me though! I'll let you know if I get anywhere with that...

Thanks for your help mate,

Danny

"David Chadwick" wrote:

> Hi Danny,
>
> I've NEVER found an answer to this problem.
>
> I'm in Australia and have the exact same issue. However, for me my Location
> does correctly set itself to "Australia" but the damn "English (United
> States)" input locale is always there.
>
> I've had this problems for years and never had a satisfactory solution.
> I've worked in several huge companies in Australia and everytime I arrive
> somewhere new I check out their build system to see if they've solved it,
> and they never have.
>
> The strange thing is that there aren't many people on the Net complaining
> about it. Sure you can find the odd message here and there, but not the
> volume that I would expect for what is essentially an extremely annoying and
> pretty bad bug. It makes me scream to see the "EN" next to the system tray
> when it doesn't need to be there but doesn't seem to bother anyone else.
>
> As for why I am successful in getting the Location right when you are not,
> try this:
>
> Instead of specifying the SystemLocal, UserLocale and InputLocale seperately
> remove all three of those lines and add a single line which says
> "Language=00000809" and see if that helps. This is meant to be functionally
> the same as using the three lines that you have used. This is how I do it
> for my language (00000c09) and the Location works.
>
> Yet another bug as an aside - if you RDP to a server from an PC set to
> "English (Australian)" the resulting terminal server session is always in
> "English (United States)" with "English (Australian)" as an option. You can
> set it to Australian until the cows come home but it will only remain that
> way for that session. This is the case whether you are RDPing to Windows
> 2000, 2003 or even XP.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> "Danny Russell" <DannyRussell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97B77466-8463-4A84-86E2-CB343B0377C0@microsoft.com...
> In our unattended deployment of Windows XP SP2 I have set all available
> Regional Settinggs as follows:
>
> [RegionalSettings]
> LanguageGroup=1
> SystemLocale=00000809
> UserLocale=00000809
> InputLocale=0809:00000809
>
> In order to make the machine entirely United Kingdom.
>
> Yet when the machine is built the "Location" (Under Regional and Language
> Options > Regional Options) is set to United States and The Language Bar is
> present with English (United States) available?!?!
>
> How do I change these in an Automated Deployment? Its frustrating me as I
> cannont find information anywhere!
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Danny Russell
>
>
>