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This policy setting restricts the Windows UI language for specific users. This policy setting applies to computers with more than one UI language installed. If you enable this policy setting the UI language of Windows menus and dialogs for systems with more than one language is restricted to a specified language for the selected user. If the specified language is not installed on the target computer or you disable this policy setting the language selection defaults to the language selected by the user. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting there is no restriction on which language users should use. To enable this policy setting in Windows Server 2003 Windows XP or Windows 2000 to use the “Restrict selection of Windows menus and dialogs language” policy setting.

This policy setting removes the regional formats interface from the Region settings control panel. This policy setting is used only to simplify the Regional and Language Options control panel. If you enable this policy setting the user does not see the regional formats options. This does not prevent the user or an application from changing their user locale or user overrides programmatically. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user sees the regional formats options for changing and customizing the user locale.

This policy setting removes the option to change the user’s menus and dialogs (UI) language from the Language and Regional Options control panel. This policy setting is used only to simplify the Regional Options control panel. If you enable this policy setting the user does not see the option for changing the UI language. This does not prevent the user or an application from changing the UI language programmatically. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user sees the option for changing the UI language. Note: Even if a user can see the option to change the UI language other policy settings can prevent them from changing their UI language.

This policy setting removes the option to change the user’s geographical location (GeoID) from the Region settings control panel. This policy setting is used only to simplify the Regional Options control panel. If you enable this policy setting the user does not see the option to change the GeoID. This does not prevent the user or an application from changing the GeoID programmatically. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user sees the option for changing the user location (GeoID). Note: Even if a user can see the GeoID option the “Disallow changing of geographical location” option can prevent them from actually changing their current geographical location.

This policy setting removes the Administrative options from the Region settings control panel. Administrative options include interfaces for setting system locale and copying settings to the default user. This policy setting does not however prevent an administrator or another application from changing these values programmatically. This policy setting is used only to simplify the Regional Options control panel. If you enable this policy setting the user cannot see the Administrative options. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the user can see the Administrative options. Note: Even if a user can see the Administrative options other policies may prevent them from modifying the values.

This policy setting prevents the user from customizing their locale by changing their user overrides. Any existing overrides in place when this policy is enabled will be frozen. To remove existing user overrides first reset the user(s) values to the defaults and then apply this policy. When this policy setting is enabled users can still choose alternate locales installed on the system unless prevented by other policies however they will be unable to customize those choices. The user cannot customize their user locale with user overrides. If this policy setting is disabled or not configured then the user can customize their user locale overrides. If this policy is set to Enabled at the computer level then it cannot be disabled by a per-User policy. If this policy is set to Disabled at the computer level then the per-User policy will be ignored. If this policy is set to Not Configured at the computer level then restrictions will be based on per-User policies. To set this policy on a per-user basis make sure that the per-computer policy is set to Not Configured.

This policy setting prevents users from changing their user geographical location (GeoID). If you enable this policy setting users cannot change their GeoID. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users may select any GeoID. If you enable this policy setting at the computer level it cannot be disabled by a per-user policy setting. If you disable this policy setting at the computer level the per-user policy is ignored. If you do not configure this policy setting at the computer level restrictions are based on per-user policy settings. To set this policy setting on a per-user basis make sure that the per-computer policy setting is not configured.