Try transposing the settings that are changed in the CURRENT_USER part of
the registry (re; your language options) to the USERS\.Default User hive.

(if you can be bothered)

Using the free registry detective tool - "Reg Shot" - you can discover just
which settings are changed after changing the in the Regional Options....

Otherwise - if you can't be bothered to learn how to do all that stuff -
it's probably the case that, if you abandon your user account and create a
brand new one - that all will be well with it!!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"gordom" wrote in message
...
Hello everyone,
I hope this is a right place for my question. I was searching the net for
the
answer on this problem for hours but I didn't find anything useful. You
are my
last resort guys :-).
I'm using a localized version of XP Professional with SP3. I have 2
accounts:
one with the admin rights and a second one with restricted user
privileges
(it's
used for every day work). The problem, I'm facing now, concerns
non-Unicode
programs run under restricted user account. Menus in these applications
are
not
displayed properly (they are full of hashes). The problem doesn't occur
on the
admin account. The advanced properties of Regional and Language Options
are
set
except "Apply all settings to the current user account and to the
default
user profile" option. This one can't be selected permanently - each
time
I
start the Regional and Language Options applet this option turns
unchecked.
I tried the following:

1. I changed the user account into an admin type temporally and started
applications.
2. I ran these applications on user account but with admin privileges
(Run as
command).
3. I created a brand new admin account and ran the programs.

Non of them helped (even a third one???). The only way to use these
applications
with correct menus is to run them on the admin account that was set as a
first
account during an operating system setup process.
Any clues what's wrong? Thanks in advance for all your help.
Regards,
gordom