[windows2000] Re: I'm not American
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:12:17 -0800 (PST)
And I am sure you are using Setlocale right?
http://www.spectrodisplay.nl/download/setlocale.zip
Setlocale allows you to preset the input-locale and keyboard-layout to the
language you specify. Use in login scripts to preset the locale (language).
Or this way
Most of these 'locale' settings are held in each users profile hive
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
.
You can manipulate these settings using a reg.exe/regedit files which imports
the correct settings for each language into the registry at login.
Create the relevant registry file for each country.
Create domain global groups for each country.
Use the iFMember resource kit utility to import the relevant registry settings
based on the group (users preferred language/country).
Add the iFMember syntax to the
%systemroot%\system32\UsrLogon.Cmd script which
runs for each user at login.
JK
----- Original Message ----
From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:41:40 AM
Subject: [windows2000] Re: I'm not American
All the setups are different and specialised, unfortunately.
-----Original Message-----
From: M [mailto:mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 January 2006 23:39
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: I'm not American
This is a real bugbear of mine. There is nothing worse than visiting a UK pc
that has the EN icon on the rhs of the system tray or has US keyboard
settings.
Angus, are you doing unattended installs ? IF so, its very easy to script
the UK keyboard settings and Locales.
Regards,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Berry" <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: [windows2000] Re: I'm not American
I recommend you immigrate to America, problem solved. It's not a bug,
it's a feature! *grin*
Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Information Advisory Manager
JM Associates
If you have a strong enough why you can bear almost any how. --Nietzsche
Angus Macdonald wrote:
> I have nothing against America or Americans. Probably as fine a continent
/
> population as you could ever hope to meet but why are Windows setup
programs
> so desperate to turn me into one? Take Windows 2003 for example. I have to
> tell the regional settings page I'm not American in FIVE different places,
> and even then it refuses to remove the American keyboard layout until the
> next boot. Not only that but after all that clicking it STILL can't work
out
> which timezone I'm in and assumes I'm American. Again!
>
> Would it really be so hard to ask me which country I'm in and set the
> defaults accordingly? I wouldn't mind changing them if I told it I was
> British but happened to want an Afghan keyboard layout but I'm sure that
> would be the exception, not the rule.
>
> Right. Rant over. I'm off to do another one.
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