Regional Settings Scripting
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:20 PM
I work for a software development company that develops ERP and POS software.
Our software requires very specific Regional Date, Time and Currency settings to be able to work. As we do quite a few installations a month we are looking for a way to change the required settings automatically.
IS there a way to change these settings by way of a script or program or something like that?
Thank you,
Corne
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:15 PM
Hi, you can automate regional settings in quite some detail with Windows Vista/7/8 using a special configuration file in the xml format.
For in-depth information I'd like to refer you to this msdn article written for Vista, but still applied to 7 and 8: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ie/goglobal/bb964650(en-us).aspx
I cannot express how important it is to really pay close attention to the command that's being executed, it needs to be in the exact format as shown in the article. I'll repeat it just in case.
control intl.cpl,, /f:"filename.xml"
Also, a tip: If you define a wrong setting inside the xml file, you will not receive an error message while running the command. So when you're trying to change settings using this method, and notice they are not being set... it's likely that there's an error in your config file.
I use this method in our organization during the deployment of the OS, to configure almost all the regional settings.
Kind regards,
Stephan Schwarz
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Friday, February 22, 2013 2:23 AMModerator
Hi Corne,
Also here is a thread for you reference:
Script to set Regional Settings
Regards,
Vincent Wang
TechNet Community Support
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