One of our users has a Win 2000 pc which should not be having any policy pushed out to it through active directory (Win 2000 domain). When logged on as administrator, the regional settings icon in control panel is visible and is set correctly ie to UK. However when logging on as the user (even with admin rights) he does not see the regional settings icon, and therefore cannot change anything. All his dates appear in American format which is causing a problem with an Access 97 dbase which sends reports automatically out through email (outlook 2000). Any ideas on how to change his settings, and where any local policy may be cached?

The easiest way to do it for a single user quickly, is breifly give the user administrative rights, change the region, then set the user to restrictive rights again. use control panel/users and passwords to do it. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz 1GB RAM 120GB HDD SATA GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB Nvidia nforce2 chipset w/ soundstorm Pioneer DVD/RW ABIT NF-7S Rev 2 Motherboard

I have tried giving him admin. rights, but he still does not see the regional settings. Is there another way of getting into the regional settings other than through control panel?

export the Regional settings from the Registry of a user that is Set to UK, and then Import these settings into the other user. Example of exported regional settings (Australian) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International] "iCountry"="61" "iCurrDigits"="2" "iCurrency"="0" "iDate"="1" "iDigits"="2" "iLZero"="1" "iMeasure"="0" "iNegCurr"="1" "iTime"="0" "iTLZero"="0" "Locale"="00000C09" "s1159"="AM" "s2359"="PM" "sCountry"="Australia" "sCurrency"="$" "sDate"="/" "sDecimal"="." "sLanguage"="ENA" "sList"="," "sLongDate"="dddd, d MMMM yyyy" "sShortDate"="d/MM/yyyy" "sThousand"="," "sTime"=":" "sTimeFormat"="h:mm:ss tt" "iTimePrefix"="0" "sMonDecimalSep"="." "sMonThousandSep"="," "iNegNumber"="1" "sNativeDigits"="0123456789" "NumShape"="1" "iCalendarType"="1" "iFirstDayOfWeek"="0" "iFirstWeekOfYear"="0" "sGrouping"="3;0" "sMonGrouping"="3;0" "sPositiveSign"="" "sNegativeSign"="-" Cheers, 25LYD