Microsoft photo editor – No file format information can be found in the registry (registry policy)

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I have Windows Server 2003 and my users are running XP. When I installed Microsoft office 2000 the photo editor said "No file format information can be found in the registry". I Googled it and I found this site. It's wonderful but the problem is I want to add the registry key by GPO to avoid applying it by hand to each PC.

I created new GPO open properties
Computer configuration --> Windows setting --> Security setting --> Registry and I added the new key, which on Windows XP is normally in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters but I can't find the key. How do I rectify this?

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The GPO allows you to set the security on Registry keys, it does not create Registry keys. You need to create a custom ADM containing your registry key and add that ADM to your GPO. There are probably a number of ways to do this but I've used NUTS for this many times. You can export the relevant Registry key to a file and have NUTS convert that to an ADM file that you can then import into your GPO.

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You could use PowerShell to update group policy. Here's an example:

set-gpregistryvalue -name "WU" -key HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate -ValueName "WUServer", "WUStatusServer" -type String -Value "http://wsus01.internal.local:8530"

And here's where you can read up more on the amazingness that is powershell:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee461027.aspx

OR AN EVEN BETTER ANSWER:

Step 1: Setup Active Directory
Step 2: Join computers to Active Directory domain
Step 3: Configure group policy to point computers to WSUS server
Step 4: Profit

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These are suggestions, I haven't had to tackle this myself...
1) BCDBoot sounds the most promising, and may be the only thing necessary.

bcdboot %WinDir% /l nl-NL

2) Are these machines being built with an answer file? This says language can be specfied in the answer file. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744569%28WS.10%29.aspx

3) Before a use logs in, settings are derived from HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT hive. You might try some of these:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\MuiCached\MachinePreferredUILanguages
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\sLanguage
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\448\52C64B7E\LanguageList

4) GPO has some "override" options, but it sounds a little overkill for this case. These would need to be set in a GPO linked to the OU the computer account resides in.
Computer Config/Windows Settings/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Regional and Language Options

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