Variations in Windows Regional Settings or Options

The Spread control reads the Windows regional settings or options, which are set by the user through the Control Panel, but due to variations in how Windows handles those settings, your user might experience unexpected results, as follows:

Operating environment	Notes about regional settings or options
Windows NT	In Windows NT, the regional settings are read from the system registry. In certain situations, Windows NT does not clear previous regional settings when reading changes from the system registry.
	In general in Windows NT, the Spread control does not recognize changes made to the Windows regional settings until you restart your development environment or your application (or perform any operation that unloads and reloads the current control file).
Windows 98	In general in Windows 98, the Spread control does not recognize changes made to the Windows regional settings until you restart your development environment or your application (or perform any operation that unloads and reloads the current control file).
Windows 2000	In Windows 2000, the regional options are read from the system registry. In certain situations, Windows 2000 does not clear previous regional options when reading changes from the system registry.
	In general in Windows 2000, the Spread control does not recognize changes made to the regional options until you restart your development environment or your application (or perform any operation that unloads and reloads the current control file).
Windows Millennium Edition	In general in Windows Millennium Edition, the Spread control does not recognize changes made to the Windows regional settings until you restart your development environment or your application (or perform any operation that unloads and reloads the current control file).
Windows XP	In Windows XP, the regional options are read from the system registry. In certain situations, Windows XP does not clear previous regional options when reading changes from the system registry.
	In general in Windows XP, the Spread control does not recognize changes made to the regional options until you restart your development environment or your application (or perform any operation that unloads and reloads the current control file).