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Determine local culture of a PC without creating an application

Is there any way to determine the local culture of a PC (such as en-US) without running an application? I tried looking in Control Panel | Regional Settings (running WinXP), but I don't know how the choices there map to the PC's culture.

I'm looking for a solution that doesn't require creating an .exe, such as running a command from the command prompt (not PowerShell), or a VbScript or JS file (as long as we are getting the real culture and not IE settings.)

Thanks

Solution

  • To view the information from the explorer interface follow the instructions in the other answers.

    For the internal details, read on:

    The locale is save per user under HKCU\Control Panel\International\ under the value LocaleName

    To quickly view your locale run this from the command line:

    REG QUERY "HKCU\Control Panel\International" /v "LocaleName"

    obviously you can query this information any way you like (cmd, powershell, vbs, c# etc...)