I just did a fresh install of Windows XP with SP2 and during the install I
created 5 admin users, then i updated everything and added a final guest
user. Since one of the users reads and understands only Chinese, I booted up
Windows and opened their Account, installed East Asian Languages and made a
few simple changes to allow optional input in Chinese. I then went into
another account and continued to install programs and drivers. The next day
i went back into the Chinese user's account and made any changes possible in
the regional and language dialog box in order to restrict that account to
only Chinese input and to have a default language of Chinese (traditional).
I returned to another English account and installed more programs but for
some reason, every program displayed all output during install and running in
Chinese characters, yet when I checked what the default language was, it was
still English (US). I then wen back into the Chinese user's account and made
the default language English (US) but nothing changed. Anything I install
and run from this point on outputs in Chinese and I do not understand why and
how to fix this. Please help.

Make sure you did not set windows that all users use the same settings.

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ykw ~
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:
music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer
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"gtabmx" <gtabmx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B447DE01-91FB-42E7-9755-1B7578B83762@microsoft.com...
>I just did a fresh install of Windows XP with SP2 and during the install I
> created 5 admin users, then i updated everything and added a final guest
> user. Since one of the users reads and understands only Chinese, I booted
> up
> Windows and opened their Account, installed East Asian Languages and made
> a
> few simple changes to allow optional input in Chinese. I then went into
> another account and continued to install programs and drivers. The next
> day
> i went back into the Chinese user's account and made any changes possible
> in
> the regional and language dialog box in order to restrict that account to
> only Chinese input and to have a default language of Chinese
> (traditional).
> I returned to another English account and installed more programs but for
> some reason, every program displayed all output during install and running
> in
> Chinese characters, yet when I checked what the default language was, it
> was
> still English (US). I then wen back into the Chinese user's account and
> made
> the default language English (US) but nothing changed. Anything I install
> and run from this point on outputs in Chinese and I do not understand why
> and
> how to fix this. Please help.

All users have separate settings as far as I'm concerned, but perhaps i did
not see this option. I doubt I made this mistake and that this is the cause
of the problem, any other suggestions? (BTW where would this option to
seperate user settings be?)

Thanks.

"You Know Who ~" wrote:

> Make sure you did not set windows that all users use the same settings.
>
> --
>
> ykw ~
> "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:
> music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer
> `````````````````````````````````````````````
>
> "gtabmx" <gtabmx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B447DE01-91FB-42E7-9755-1B7578B83762@microsoft.com...
> >I just did a fresh install of Windows XP with SP2 and during the install I
> > created 5 admin users, then i updated everything and added a final guest
> > user. Since one of the users reads and understands only Chinese, I booted
> > up
> > Windows and opened their Account, installed East Asian Languages and made
> > a
> > few simple changes to allow optional input in Chinese. I then went into
> > another account and continued to install programs and drivers. The next
> > day
> > i went back into the Chinese user's account and made any changes possible
> > in
> > the regional and language dialog box in order to restrict that account to
> > only Chinese input and to have a default language of Chinese
> > (traditional).
> > I returned to another English account and installed more programs but for
> > some reason, every program displayed all output during install and running
> > in
> > Chinese characters, yet when I checked what the default language was, it
> > was
> > still English (US). I then wen back into the Chinese user's account and
> > made
> > the default language English (US) but nothing changed. Anything I install
> > and run from this point on outputs in Chinese and I do not understand why
> > and
> > how to fix this. Please help.
>
>
>

Still with no luck, I have decided to try a different method to fix the
problem since it seems Windows has lost control of language settings. Where
can I find the registry key or keys responsible for regional and language
settings?

Thanks
Mike