I work in an education establishment where students are required to use the language bar for chinese classes. Normally the default is English AU (which is what I want) and the pinyin simplified chinese is the secondary that users can select from the language bar. With windows XP we used to copy the default profile for this one we set it up. With Windows 7 is there a smarter way to do this now? I dont want to have to go to every machine to enable the language bar and add simplified chinese and add pinyin as an input keyboard, I have read forums using group policy preferences but this seems to overright default language only not additional. (http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33140793/anyway-to-apply-additional-input-language-per-user-via-group-polic.aspx) I have also seen an forum that listed the regedit key that holds the keyboard language however the reg key did not exist for windows 7. Any assistance? There is no way that I want to do this on 800 PC's. must be automated. Thanks

No new policies for this purpose is included in Windows 7. Also in the new policy tool GPP I cannot find settings that can work on this. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

So are we expected to do it manually on every device that we run in our domain? Surely this cant be the case? Not even a regedit or script?

Yes you need to change the settings manually.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Yes you need to change the settings manually. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ” Where is the "Mark as a very poor answer" button?

I think he's right. I'm facing the exact same problems, as i want to setup which languages will be on a languagebar by default after deployment. I cannot find how to script / edit / setting this up by policy / other hacks / my way around this problem. I don't want to change this on all the machines in the domain, i want to deploy the settings :)