INFO: Resource Language Decided by ResourceLocale Key on Windows 95

SUMMARY

Under Windows 95 and Windows 98, there is a registry value "HKEY_USER/ Default/Control Panel/desktop/ResourceLocale/Default", which is set to the locale of the shell (for example, 0x409 for US English Windows 95). By default, Windows 98 places this key in the registry and sets value to 0x409 for US versions of the operating system. This value controls how a different language resource is (or is not) picked up when an application is run.

Under US English Windows 95 or Windows 98, users can change the "Control panel/Regional settings" from the default locale (for example, US English) to another locale (for example, standard French). However, this change does not affect which language version of the resource is used. Even if the application contains both an English and French resource, and the user locale is changed to French, the English resource (which matches the ResourceLocale/Default value of 0x409) is loaded.

Because the resource loader (in kernel) depends on it to load the language resource, this registry value should reflect the language value of the operating system and should not be modified or deleted.