Autounattend.xml - Set Language to English - Australia (en-AU)

Hi all,

Am trying to use the AIK's WSIM application to make my own Autounattend.xml file. This file, along with the Windows install source, is copied onto a USB stick / thumb drive, and the PC is booted from that drive to install Windows 7. Note that there is no WDS, no MDS or anything else in use here.

The Autounattend.xml works in general, in that I can use it set disk partitions, accept the EULA and enter the license key. What does not work is the language and localisation - what I'm trying to set is:

• Input locale: en-AU (or 0c09:00000409)
  
• System locale: en-AU
  
• UI Language: en-AU
  
• UI Language Fallback: en-US
  
• User locale: en-AU
  
• Setup UI Language (winPE only): en-US
  

I've tried setting this in the following passes:

• windowsPE: Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-winPE
  
• specialize: Microsoft-Windows-International-Core
  
• oobeSystem: Microsoft-Windows-International-Core
  

It does not work: both the language / locale dialogs (one at the very start of setup, before the "Install Now ->" screen and the other at the very end jus before the desktop appears) still appear, and still default to en-US for everything.

Help! There seem to be various other posts (here and elsewhere) about this, but no resolution for the USB-only scenario. Similar issue seems to exist for en-GB.

Even if I set everything to en-US, the langauge prompts still appear.

Thanks

Lukas

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