Cannot access Control Panel anymore.

[Helene Day]

I changed my regional settings to Spanish-Spain (used to be English-Canada),
since I was doing some debugging for my customer. Everything was fine, and I
could go back to the Control Panel and change more settings, etc...

I rebooted by PC while my setting was set to Spanish-Spain, and when I try
to access the Control Panel, I get an Application Error from Explorer that
"The instruction at "..." referenced memory at "...". The memory could not
be "read".

I am using Win 2000 Pro with SP4, and I am trying to find a way to set my
regional settings back to English-Canada or English-US and be able to access
my control panel again.

Any registry specific keys?
or tools?

Thanks for your help.

Helene

 

[Guest]

The steps to change regional settings from registry are

1-Start regedit
2-Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
3-Make sure the root of the tree on the left hand side is highlighted
4-From the registry menu, select "Load Hive:
5-Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT (you have to
show hidden files to browse to here)
6-Use "TEST" as the key name
7-Go to HKLM\TEST\Control Panel\International and make changes as desired
8-Highlight the TEST key and select "unload hive" from the registry menu.
9-That should do it.

For English(US) the 'Locale' needs to be 00000409.

 

[Helene Day]

Thanks for your suggestion. I just find a way to fix it.

From Windows 2000 Help,
I looked for Regional Settings utility.
and the shortcut "Open Regional Options in Control Panel" link, pop the
Regional Options window.

Back in English word

Oufff.........