Comments by Steve Thresher (Top 4 by date)

I'm talking about a windows service (services.msc). I've written a test service that just runs the following code when started:

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
IntPtr hkl = GetKeyboardLayout(0);

string output = String.Format("GetKeyboardLayout: 0x{0:x} \n",unchecked((short)((uint)hkl >> 16)));

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(output);

StringBuilder layoutName = new System.Text.StringBuilder(new string(' ', 256)); ;
GetKeyboardLayoutName(layoutName);

output = String.Format("GetKeyboardLayoutName: {0} \n", layoutName);

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(output);
}

The output on the problem server looks like this:

GetKeyboardLayout: 0x409
GetKeyboardLayoutName: 00000409

They should both show 809 on a server configured for English UK.