Default User - 'Nation'='242' Registry tweak confusion

[dchambers]

Hi all,

Wonder if any of you folk can point me in the right direction here, I'm more

a unix chap than windows - currently deploying w2k from solaris with great

success - apart from this little problem.

I want to automatically set the location to United Kingdom in the regional

and language options but I also want this to be default for all users. I

realise this is a registry tweak, I've put a lot of hours ( many many vmware

builds ) into experimentation & so far I can achieve the following:

As per http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/17/ I have

successfully placed the registry setting "Nation"="242" into the registry

using cmdlines.txt at T-12, my understanding from msfn is that the Default

User's hive is loaded into HKEY_CURRENT_USER at this point & indeed when I

look at the registry after installation [HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/control

panel/international/geo/] Nation is set to 242 as required - However, the

administrator account somehow reverts to United States & any subsequent

users I create also default to United States ??!

I have tried inserting the key into s-1-5-18 / s-1-5-19 with no luck. I also

tried exporting the registry & then checking the "Default User Account

Settings" checkbox & exporting the registry again so I might do a unix diff

but had no luck because of the nature of the exported files.

I'll keep pluging away at this simply because it is bugging the hell out of

me - if I come up with a solution I will post it. In the mean time if any of

you folks know how to fix my problem, I'd be most grateful if you'd post.

Keep up the good work, unattended is by far the most useful piece of

software I have used for a long long time - truely excellent if a little too

addictive

Many thanks,

Darren Chambers

[Yzöwl]

To set those things I use my unattended file, winnt.sif, using the following:

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1
SystemLocale=00000809
UserLocale=00000809
InputLocale=0809:00000809

[Unattended]
KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

My registry keys still remain as 244, which as you must know is US as opposed to UK, but so far I've never seen any probelms in doing so. What am I missing out on?

[dchambers]

Hi there,

Thanks very much for posting back

I have the regional settings you mention & everything in the Regioal settings dialogue box get set to UK apart from the Location field which as I understand cannot be set using [RegionalSettings] - Bizarre but true.

This link illustrates my point:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/82/

Heading: Location ( 3/4 down the page )

Cheers,

Darren

[Yzöwl]

I know about the setting etc.; the point I am trying to make is that I see no reason to set it. I have never seen anything which uses this setting and as such have never had the need to include it as part of my setups. Is the nation asked for in an attended setup? If as I believe not, it serves no useful purpose for general use.

I would suggest if you really do want to set this that using a Windows NT Command Script to load the Default Users hive and setting it through that may be your best bet!

UserNation.cmd

@Echo off&Setlocal
Set "KEY=HKU\Default"
Pushd %AllUsersProfile%\..
Reg load %KEY% "Default User\NTUSER.DAT">Nul
Reg add "%KEY%\Control Panel\International\Geo" /v Nation /d "242" /f>Nul
Reg unload %KEY%>Nul
Endlocal&Goto :Eof

[dchambers]

Thanks very much wise owl

I think you are right, the field has no noticable purpose whatsoever. I think I've just become obsessed

I loaded up the default user hive & everything is tip top so thanks very much for your help.