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How do you change the Windows default local news location?

Every time I visit each website (i.e. MSN, Yahoo!, Google, etc.) the local news location defaults to St. Paul, MN (I do not live in MN). I would even change the default location to my hometown (on all the websites), but when I go back to the pages they default back to St. Paul, MN.

I figure this is too big of a coincidence to be a website-wide problem. I would believe it has to be changed somewhere in Windows (Using Windows XP). Does anyone have any idea on how and where to change it?

Update:

Try going to control Panel -> Regional and Language Options and change your location: Does not have option for specific location

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Try going to control Panel -> Regional and Language Options and change your location

  • 5 years ago

    google

  • 1 decade ago

    Whenever you open a file from any program or trying to save a file using “Save As”, most of the time the default location would be either Desktop or My Documents. I did a little research and found out that it can’t be changed. However, at the left side of the “Save As” dialog, you will see 5 locations which is My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer and My Network Places that has been preset for you to save. Those 5 locations are called “Places Bar” and it is supposed to be a convenient way for you to save it to the preset location.If you’re working on something that frequently needs to save files other than the preset location, you can change the default save location, so you don’t need to browse to the location each time you want to save. I will show you how to easily change the Windows default Save As or Open Places Bar Location.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

    You’d have to use Microsoft PowerToys Tweak UI which gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. Download Tweak UI from the link at the end of this article and install. Run Tweak UI from start menu, expand Common Dialogs and click on Places Bar.

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