a local user who has administrator rights can change the regional and language settings. If you want a domain user to change it, make the domain user member of local administrator on each machine ... else making each user as domain admin is one way.. But i don't recommend this..Regards, h9ck3r.

I got it figured out. We definitely don't want to give all domain users local administrative rights. It ended up being a group policy setting that needed to be set to allow users in the group access to the control panel and set it to show control panel contents.

I work at a high school and recently updated all of our computers to from Windows XP to Windows 7. There are a number of students taking a Chinese language course and under Windows XP they were restricted from accessing any component of the control panel except "Regional and Language Settings" so they could change the keyboard input to allow Chinese characters. Under Windows 7 they can see the broad categories in the control panel but each category is empty, including "Clock, Region, and Language" settings where they need to access "change keyboards or other input methods." I didn't set up the network here, but I'm assuming that there is a group policy setting for the domain accounts (which are in the local machine's 'users' group) that allowed students to access what they needed to on an XP machine, but that didn't translate to Windows 7. We are running Server2003 domain controllers. I created a local user and that account is able to change the keyboard settings, but the domain accounts which are also in the local users group cannot change those settings. I was also unable to successfully copy the local account to the default user account. I needed to re-image the machine after doing that! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

a local user who has administrator rights can change the regional and language settings. If you want a domain user to change it, make the domain user member of local administrator on each machine ... else making each user as domain admin is one way.. But i don't recommend this..Regards, h9ck3r.