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Setting Time Zone and User Input keyboard language via Group Policy

17/10/2013

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Today, I received calls off a large number of users whose input language (keyboard) had somehow reverted to English U.S on their Wyse thin client's running WES7 (Windows 7 Embedded). Just to clarify we are based in England, so it should be, and always had been English U.K.

Upon further investigation, I discovered that not only the user input had changed, but so had the time zone to Pacific Standard Time.

How did it happen? Not 100% sure at the moment, however we applied three hotfixes to WDM (Wyse Device Manager) the previous day, so have good reason to believe these updates were the cause.

As our WES7 thin clients were on the domain, the fix was pretty straight forward. This fix also applies to Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 and may work on other, newer Windows OS's (untested)

To change the time zone, create a logon script to run the below as a BAT file:
tzutil /s "GMT Standard Time"

To set the user input (keyboard) to English UK, create a startup script, or use group policy preferences to push out the following registry changes:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000809"


Of course, for those of you reading this from elsewhere in the world, these can be changed for other input languages or time zones.
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Alex Heer link
21/3/2014 11:05:34 pm

The WDM hot fixes weren't the issue, for some reason Wyse Configuration Manager (WCM) kicked in

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blod article link
13/4/2018 09:01:07 am

I've almost forgot already that you need to set the time zone manually. All my gadgets change it automatically, when I turn on Internet. It's really convenient. So I understand that someone can don't know how to change it manually. Gadgets are banded with us so hard, we start to forget how it is to live without them.

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