I cannot start Analysis Services 2005 SP2 on Vista PC. Error - The service cannot be started...

Q: I cannot start SSAS 2005 SP2 on Vista PC. Error - The service cannot be started...
Error description:
The service cannot be started: Message-handling subsystem: The message manager for the default locale cannot be found. The locale will be changed to US English. Errors in the metadata manager. LOG file extension can be only .LOG. Message-handling subsystem: The message manager for the default locale cannot be found. The locale will be changed to US English. Message-handling subsystem: The message manager for the 16393 locale cannot be found. Internal error: Failed to generate a hash string.

A: You must be running Vista with setting new (Regional and Language Options -> Formats) locales for instance to English(India). This is something new came up with Vista. Try changing your locale to English(US).

Source - MSDN Forum, answered by Edward Melomed.