How to force .NET4 & it's tools to use English for exceptions and other messages.

Question

I would like for my Win7-x64 dev box to remain in the current locale (pl-PL), but at the same time for whole .NET tools to run in English locale.

I previous releases this could be achieved by not installing a language pack add-on that came up in windows update. This time it did sneak up and I cannot find it in windows update history and appwiz.cpl, or it is installed differently.

Can you tell how to uninstall other than English locales for .NET installation or setup .NET & it's tools to use only English locale?

What I'm NOT interested in (and there are already such answers on SO):

• How to setup current process or application locale, within this application (aka. CurrentCulture ). I do want applications I release to use user's current locale.
• Change current thread locale. For the same reason as above.

PS. I would like to avoid re-installation of .NET/VS2010 if possible ;)

Answer 1

As far as I know there is no way to get rid of localized messages when you have "localized" version of Windows. Possibly, Windows 7 Ultimate (I am not sure about other versions) should allow changing the whole UI language, and it should do the trick (as this is what CLR uses to determine current locale).