Office 2007 GUID of the product contains 0000 for LCID

SwathiSree
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Hello,

i need to retrieve the locale of an Office 2007 product.
Microsoft support sites say that for GUID {BRMMmmmm-PPPP-LLLL-p000-D000000FF1CE} created in registry for the product, LLLL gives the LCID of the product.
But on many of the office products i see that LLLL is 0000. Does this mean that the setup file is corrupt or on some of the Office 2007 products this information is not stored at all??

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Deepu AbrahamR & D Engineering Manager

Commented:
Can you try opening the .msi file using orca.exe and see if its there ?
Try downloading it from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370557%28VS.85%29.aspx
SwathiSree

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Thanks for your replies.
what i was looking for was not to repair the msi ...
i wanted to know if the GUID has 0000 for LCID, what does this infer??
Top Expert 2012
Commented:
'0000' is just 'neutral':
WINNT.H:#define LANG_NEUTRAL                     0x00
WINNT.H:#define SUBLANG_NEUTRAL                  0x00    // language neutral
WINNT.H:#define LANG_SYSTEM_DEFAULT    (MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_SYS_DEFAULT))
WINNT.H:#define LANG_USER_DEFAULT      (MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT))
WINNT.H:          (MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL), SORT_DEFAULT))

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SwathiSree

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It was wat i wanted

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