Changing Date on emails

[Barr_y]

Hi Igor thank you for that information. I would do that on my own computer OK but trying to get an 85 year old to do it through MSN Messenger, that has a job to understand. I wouldn't dare to take him into the registry. I will have to wait until I visit him to make the alteration. But thank you again anyway.

[DavidR]

You could export the previously mentioned International registry key in your setup and that saves a .reg file which could be run 'merge' however both your systems would have to be essentially the same. Identifying this would probably just as difficult and probably safer done face to face.

[Lisandro]

You could export all the keys and then edit the .reg file to have *only* the sShortDate value and then send to him to import to the registry, even if your systems aren't essentially the same.

[DavidR]

Now why didn't I think of that

That would certainly be simpler, I exported mine and edited it and tried to test it, but for some I couldn't get it to run. I kept getting the reg file is not a valid win32 application.

[Lisandro]

That would certainly be simpler, I exported mine and edited it and tried to test it, but for some I couldn't get it to run. I kept getting the reg file is not a valid win32 application.

The file must begin with: REGEDIT4

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International]
"sShortDate"="d/M/yyyy"
It's just test

[DavidR]

It did, because I changed it to that it originally when exported had:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 as the first line (I changed that to REGEDIT4), which makes a bit of a mockery of the export process, if you subsequently can't merge/restore the exported reg key. Unless this works only with import and I can see no option to import.

Interestingly I tried something else, created another .reg file ShortDate.reg (left original line one) opened the registry at the International key and dragged and dropped the ShortDate.reg file into it and it reported success, go figure, I never knew it did that

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International]
"sLongDate"="dd MMMM yyyy"
"sShortDate"="dd/MM/yyyy"