Ron
Wed May 31 05:43:08 CDT 2006
To go along with Franc's final comment, there is a software program named
RegView that will take a snapshot of your registry. You can then make
changes and RegView will compare the current registry to the snapshot and
identify everything that has changed.
http://www.regview.com/regview/
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"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
news:3ciq72hav1oengq5kb528bjg89ne614gh0@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 16:51:07 -0700, Phillip Pi
> <phillip_pi@symantec.comSYMC> put finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>>Oops, forgot to change the title to 98 and ME since I posted in XP and
>>2000 newsgroups with similiar questions. :)
>>
>>
>>On 5/30/2006 1:37 PM PT, Phillip Pi wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Where does Windows 98, 98 SE, and Me store their country/region and
>>> language datas in their registries? I am not having luck in determining
>>> what keys have these information.
>>>
>>> At first, I thought it was HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
>>> Panel\International\ with Locale, but I don't think this it. Basically,
>>> I just need to check the country/region and language what Windows is
>>> using via a software checker. This is for both English and localized
>>> operating systems.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance. :)
>
> Win98SE writes these settings to win.ini.
>
> It also stores them in the registry at these keys:
>
> [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International]
> "Locale"="00000C09"
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Locale
>
> I notice that if I change the currency symbol, say, for my selected
> region (Australia) to something other than the default, this choice is
> recorded as follows:
>
> [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International]
> "Locale"="00000C09"
> "sCurrency"="?"
>
> The above example is the result of changing from a $ symbol to the
> Euro.
>
> BTW, you can determine where in the registry certain settings are
> stored by comparing the registry before and after you make the
> changes.
>
> - Franc Zabkar
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