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Changing Windows 7 system locale for non-Unicode programs in registry

Something rather strange crept up today and its do to with non-Unicode language settings in Windows 7 which weren’t working properly. Basically some of our printers didn’t print barcodes properly and after some extensive troubleshooting the culprit was language in Windows that was set to English (United States) instead of English (United Kingdom) You can find system locale settings for non-Unicode programs under:

<strong>Control Panel --> Region and Language --> Administrative tab --> Change system locale...</strong>

1	<strong>Control Panel --> Region and Language --> Administrative tab --> Change system locale...</strong>

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Very unwelcoming error message just popped during user login process when I was messing around with mapping printer connections:

This will obviously not cause too much of a problem with a single computer but when you have 500 of them throwing this error you know you’re in trouble! Not how do you remove/hide this message? In my case Group Policy was the answer and the particular setting is called Point and Print Restrictions and it exists under User and Computer Configurations:

Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Printers
User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Printers
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