Regional settings and English applications

[pvanos]

When I specify under Regional Settings my LOCAL LANGUAGE (as I want the displaying of dates, numbers, currency and of course the input locale in my LOCAL way) the problem is that when I install an application from a multi-language install-program, I am always offered the LOCAL versions.
And I want the English(United States) version.

Example : I installed WinNT4.0 English on all workstations, with Regional Settings set to "Dutch(Belgium)".
When I try to install Acrobat Reader from a CD with all different language versions, including Dutch, it will try to install the Dutch version, and I want to have the English version for the reason of consistency.

As to Internet Explorer, I just added in Internet Options, tab General: [Languages...] "English" on top of "Dutch(Belgium)". But that does not solve my problem with installing software from CD's.

Has anyone run into this problem already ?

 

[Marcs41]

Goedenavond ;-)
You should be able to find an 'en' version of Acrobat on the CD, otherwise, just download the English version from adobe.
Or, you can temp. set you country to US.

IE has nothing to do with that, but will affect updates.

Marc
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[pvanos]

Merciekes, Marc !

The problem is more of a general nature, and indeed, I could change the "regional settings" temporarily back to US, but I was hoping for an easier way...
I have to install new applications and updates quite frequently.
In addition, not all applications allow you to select the language version you're going to install.

 

[Marcs41]

I know, it is a pain, but there is not much you can do about it.
What I do is set my region to US, and manually set the rest to what I want, like time, date, currency and number formats.
For the rest, my PC thinks it is in US.
Just fool it, it does not matter, works just the same.

Marc