Custom ADM template to change the Regional Setting Fahad 12/27/2008 7:36:01 AM Dear All we need to force the english Numbers (0123456789) to be used on all clients (Win XP SP3 & Win Vista SP1) in our domain. we need to keyboard layout (Arabic & english). i need the users to use only english number while typing. I don't want to use Arabic Numbers be used anyhow. in the regional & language options, we are using English (United State) in the standards and formats. the easiest way I found is to create custom ADM template to change the settings located in this registry hiv "HKCU\Control Panel\International". in this hiv I found many values related to numbering format (NumShape, sNativeDigit & Locale). the problem is that I don't know which options (in the above hiv) I need to modify to force using english numbers. could please tell me which one do I need to modify?

Re: Custom ADM template to change the Regional Setting "Florian Frommherz [MVP]" <florian[ at ]frickelsoft.DELETETHIS.net> 12/27/2008 10:39:12 AM Fahad, Fahad wrote: [Quoted Text] > we need to force the english Numbers (0123456789) to be used on all clients > (Win XP SP3 & Win Vista SP1) in our domain. we need to keyboard layout > (Arabic & english). i need the users to use only english number while typing. > I don't want to use Arabic Numbers be used anyhow. Since you are on XP and Vista clients only, have you checked Group Policy Preferences? They can change the Regional settings way easier than with an ADM template file, see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731892.aspx http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=127 http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2008/10/13/red-green-gp-preferences-doesn-t-work-even-though-the-policy-applied-and-after-gpupdate-force.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2008/10/20/red-green-underlining-continued-using-preferences-to-set-ie-settings-like-preference-or-like-policy.aspx cheers, Florian -- Microsoft MVP - Group Policy eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net. blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog. Maillist (german): http://frickelsoft.net/cms/index.php?page=mailingliste