DOCUMENT:Q175086 08-MAY-2002 [win95x] TITLE :Regional Settings Specified in User Profile Are Not Applied PRODUCT :Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product PROD/VER:WINDOWS:95 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbenv kbtool kbui win95kbfixlist ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Windows 95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS ======== If user profiles are enabled in Windows 95, and you specify settings using the Regional Settings tool in Control Panel that are different from the default regional settings, your regional settings may not be applied when you log on to Windows 95. If you use the "Close all programs and log on as a different user" option to shut down Windows 95, the regional settings for the previous user are applied. If you restart Windows, the default regional settings are applied. RESOLUTION ========== A supported fix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem described in this article and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information on support costs, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS NOTE: In special cases, charges that are normally incurred for support calls may be canceled, if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. Normal support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question. The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes: Date Time Version Size File name Platform ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/18/98 4:27pm 4.00.962 127,488 Mprserv.dll Windows 95 (all) 4/9/97 4:21pm 4.00.952 411,648 Kernel32.dll Windows 95 & OSR1 5/22/98 3:29pm 4.00.1112 437,248 Kernel32.dll OSR2 11/11/99 4:01pm 4.03.1216 433,664 Kernel32.dll OSR2.1 & OSR2.5 NOTE: This issue is not resolved by later versions of these files. To work around this behavior, follow these steps: 1. Restart your computer, and then click Cancel when you are prompted to log on. This logs you on as the default user. 2. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 3. Double-click Regional Settings. 4. Make the appropriate changes to your regional settings, click OK, and then close Control Panel. 5. Restart your computer. 6. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 7. Double-click Passwords, and then click the User Profiles tab. 8. Click "Users can customize their preferences and desktop settings. Windows switches to your personal settings whenever you log in", and then click OK. 9. Click Yes when you are prompted to restart your computer. STATUS ====== Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95 and OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2). This issue is resolved in Microsoft Windows 98. MORE INFORMATION ================ The regional settings that are affected by this problem are Currency, Number, and Time and Date formats. For additional information about issues resolved by updates to these components, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q198035 User Profiles Not Copied to Server with Updated Mprserv.dll File Q181869 Desktop Folders Are Not Deleted Under Roving Profiles Q181868 Config.pol File Attributes Change After Supervisor Logs On Q174979 Screen Saver Password Is Not Changed with Domain Password Q172647 Server Copy of User Profile May Be Overwritten By Local Copy Q165402 Windows 95 Update to Encrypt Passwords in Memory Q148336 Memory Leak in Windows 95 Kernel Using Windows Sockets Q136834 Error Copying Read-Only Files to Core SMB Server Q245134 Windows 95 Updates May Not Install in OSR 2.1 or 2.5 Q145935 BUG: CopyFile Fails with Read-Only Files For additional information about Windows 95 updates, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q161020Implementing Windows 95 Updates Additional query words: ====================================================================== Keywords : kbenv kbtool kbui win95 kbfixlist Technology : kbWin95search kbZNotKeyword3 Version : WINDOWS:95 Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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