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SteveC
Asked: 2011-01-15 04:20:02 +0800 CST

Change regional settings on pre-Windows 2008 / Vista

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How do you change the regional settings of the various system accounts (local system, local service and network service) on older versions of Windows ?

I can only find the page on MSDN that refers to this feature, but it's only applicable to Vista or later

windows-server-2003 service-accounts windows-registry

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  1. Best Answer

    Well, it's quite simple.

    In Windows 2003, just log in as an administrator, open the tool from panel control, and in the third secction, check "apply this to all users" (after changing it to the one you need).

    After restarting, any user that logs, or any account who runs a service, will run with the same setting u have configured.

    I suppose in 2000 will work too, they're similar.

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  2. By Toomanyhat.

    Of additional note is that the Application Pool Identity NETWORKSERVICE applies to both the DefaultAppPool and the Classic .Net AppPool

    But in a classic ASP web page a VBScript calling for FORMATDATETIME(Date(),2) did not correct with a Short time setting to the

    SID: S-1-5-20
Name: NT Authority
Description: Network Service

    In order for the Classic .Net AppPool to respond it needed the following SID adjusted as well.

    SID: S-1-5-18
Name: Local System
Description: A service account that is used by the operating system.

    for good measure I made the same change here

    SID: S-1-5-19
Name: NT Authority
Description: Local Service

    this is consistent with the value under

    Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\International

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