Regional Settings Issue

[Darren King]

Dear All,

We are based in the United Kingdom but have several servers and workstations
on the network that have both the UK and US keyboard regional setting.
Although the UK is set as the default new users tend to experience a problem
whereby Office apps will revert to the United States keyboard and dictionary
settings.

Does anyone know if you can delete the United States input locale setting
via a reg key? If so I
shall create a registry file to do this. If not is this possible via a GPO?
Any help you can offer would be appreciated as we have over 1800
workstations so doing this manually is not an option.

Regards,

Darren

 

[Jim]

Dear All,

We are based in the United Kingdom but have several servers and workstations
on the network that have both the UK and US keyboard regional setting.
Although the UK is set as the default new users tend to experience a problem
whereby Office apps will revert to the United States keyboard and dictionary
settings.

Does anyone know if you can delete the United States input locale setting
via a reg key? If so I
shall create a registry file to do this. If not is this possible via a GPO?
Any help you can offer would be appreciated as we have over 1800
workstations so doing this manually is not an option.

Regards,

Darren

Hi Darren,

Which version of Office, and have you created a custom installation?


Jim

 

[Jim]

Dear All,

We are based in the United Kingdom but have several servers and workstations
on the network that have both the UK and US keyboard regional setting.
Although the UK is set as the default new users tend to experience a problem
whereby Office apps will revert to the United States keyboard and dictionary
settings.

Does anyone know if you can delete the United States input locale setting
via a reg key? If so I
shall create a registry file to do this. If not is this possible via a GPO?
Any help you can offer would be appreciated as we have over 1800
workstations so doing this manually is not an option.

Regards,

Darren

Hi Darren,

Which version of Office, and have you created a custom installation?


Jim

 

[Darren King]

Hi Jim,

No I haven't created a custom installation file, as we have two versions
both Office 10 (XP) and 11 (2003) running in our environment.

What I was hoping to do was somehow delete the US Input Locale setting
completely via Windows but en-mass (to about 1800 client computers.) So I
was wondering if anyone knew if it would be possible to do this via a
registry file or a GPO? As this would prevent the issue from occuring.

As I said all regional settings including input locale are set to United
Kingdom but the United States setting is still present as the non-default
setting in the input locale section and for some reason this being present
still causes an issue whereby new users that logon get US settings with
Office applications - i.e date formats, dictionarys etc.

Although Jim if you can suggest a better way I can resolve this issue your
assistance is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Darren

 

[Darren King]

Hi Jim,

No I haven't created a custom installation file, as we have two versions
both Office 10 (XP) and 11 (2003) running in our environment.

What I was hoping to do was somehow delete the US Input Locale setting
completely via Windows but en-mass (to about 1800 client computers.) So I
was wondering if anyone knew if it would be possible to do this via a
registry file or a GPO? As this would prevent the issue from occuring.

As I said all regional settings including input locale are set to United
Kingdom but the United States setting is still present as the non-default
setting in the input locale section and for some reason this being present
still causes an issue whereby new users that logon get US settings with
Office applications - i.e date formats, dictionarys etc.

Although Jim if you can suggest a better way I can resolve this issue your
assistance is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Darren

 

[Jim]

Just a long shot, which you've probably already tried, but can't you
copy the approriate reg key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0 (and
10.0)\Common\LanguageResources to the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT key on the
client PCs? That way any new user should inherit those key.

A workaround rather than a solution, but it might be worth a shot.


Jim

 

[Jim]

Just a long shot, which you've probably already tried, but can't you
copy the approriate reg key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0 (and
10.0)\Common\LanguageResources to the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT key on the
client PCs? That way any new user should inherit those key.

A workaround rather than a solution, but it might be worth a shot.


Jim

 

[Darren King]

Hi Jim,

Have given that a go but it doesn't seem to do the trick. Do you have any
other suggestions?

Or does anyone else have any on how I can get round this?

Your assistance is greatly appreciated,

Darren

 

[Darren King]

Hi Jim,

Have given that a go but it doesn't seem to do the trick. Do you have any
other suggestions?

Or does anyone else have any on how I can get round this?

Your assistance is greatly appreciated,

Darren