First off, Welcome to THE Forum, heartsiphobia! As to your problem, that is a strange behaviour indeed, as Nerwin pointed. Could you give an example of a site which denies your access to it so we can try and duplicate your issue? @Nerwin Should someone enforce such a check on their website, they would verify your location through reverse lookup, meaning resolving your IP to a ISP, and that has absolutely nothing to do with the regional settings in Control Panel of your PC