I am trying to pick up some of the regional settings when I load an access database. My users are having their profiles re-set due to some issues with Novell and NT not working well toegether?

Anyway a new profile consists of everything being re-set to an American format which causes all sorts of disasters.(I set all the settings myself manually!!).

What I want to do is pick up the regional settings and inform the user to set them correctly or even set them myself at run-time.

I am not an expert with the registry and have not yet had chance to read the section on API. However I thought there might be a simple way to complete this excersize hence the thread.

The other spanner is that I do not have admin rights to the registry as I am classed a normal user.