Deploying Windows 7 - Region and Language

[ejon]

Hi,

 

I currently have a MDT2010/SCCM 2007 SP2 and would like to know how to deploy a master image with the specific Region and Language Settings?

 

Settings i want:

 

Format: Enlgish (Australia)

Location: Australia

Keyboard and Languages: English (Australia)

Remove English (US)

 

 

Cheers

 

EJon

[jamitupya]

EJon,

We do it as follows,

 

 

 

then also run a registry hack...

RemoveUSEnglish.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000c09"
"2"=-
"3"=-
"4"=-
"5"=-
"6"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CTFMON.EXE"=-

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000c09"
"2"=-
"3"=-
"4"=-
"5"=-
"6"=-


[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CTFMON.EXE"=-

 

[jamitupya]

 

then also run a registry hack...

RemoveUSEnglish.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000c09"
"2"=-
"3"=-
"4"=-
"5"=-
"6"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CTFMON.EXE"=-

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000c09"
"2"=-
"3"=-
"4"=-
"5"=-
"6"=-


[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CTFMON.EXE"=-

 

 

We don't use this atm as we require the en-US pack but you can edit to support en-AU easily enough i assume

[ejon]

Cool!

 

Thanks jamitupya. will give this one a go. Regarding the UILanguageFallback --. does this have to be set as en-US?

[anyweb]

did you see this post ?

 

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1660-customising-windows-7-deployments-part-1/

[ejon]

did you see this post ?

 

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1660-customising-windows-7-deployments-part-1/

 

 

Hi Anyweb

 

No. i did not see that post, must have missed it. Thank you for posting!

 

there's some minor adjustment i made since i have an existing unattend.xml specified in the TS already. -- basically i just added the extra line in the newly created unattend.xml using WSIM. it seemed to have worked.

 

cheers!

 

EJon

[jamitupya]

Cool, glad to see you got it working.

 

No you don't have to use en-us, we use it because we are in japan and need a global standard for our SOE's.....

[Thomas M]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CTFMON.EXE"=-
[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"CTFMON.EXE"=-

 

What does this bit of the registry file actually do?

As far as I understand it stops CTFMON.EXE from running.

Is this needed?

[jamitupya]

CTFMON monitors the active window and changes the input language to suit that window... very annoying and in japanese keyboards we use the tilde (~) to cycle through the keyboard sets.... its not required so we disable it.

[jamitupya]

CTFMON monitors the active window and changes the input language to suit that window... very annoying and in japanese keyboards we use the tilde (~) to cycle through the keyboard sets.... its not required so we disable it.

 

 

 

 

edit: check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599 for more info