The new Windows Live Writer is very good as I pointed out in a previous post but couldn't figure out where my spell check had gone off to. It turns out that if you run LIve Writer on a box with a non-English regional setting the spell check will be disabled with no way of activating it through the UI.

Luckily I found a workaround on Roy Osherove's blog; basically a small exe which launches Live Writer with spell checking enabled. A bit of a dirty workaround but it gets the job done until Microsoft release a version with this behavior fixed.

On a related note I still remember when Apple decided to do something along these lines with a release of iTunes which basically read the current locale of the system and launched iTunes in that particular language without any way of overriding the setting. Really annoying if you like me run an English version of Windows with a different locale. I just want my programs to speak English with Danish keyboard enabled and have all their features enabled damn it! :)