Re: Foreign language characters in some XP dialogues

katman999 wrote:

Hope someone can shed some light on this weird problem.

A few of the XP dialogues (especially to do with network settings,
connections etc.) on one particular PC appear in a foreign language (looks
like Czech or something similar). All other XP dialogues are correctly in
English. On some dialogues both languages appear but on different tabs.

Default regional and language settings all seem to be set correctly. All
SP's, critical updates etc are the latest. All malware/spyware has been
removed completely. The only recently installed software is for a Belkin
wifi DSL router.

Can anybody suggest any causes and more importantly any remedies? 
Hi,

I have seen this on some computers at work, getting Arabic letters in
the dialog boxes you mention (most likely introduced after some OS
security updates installed together with an IE security update, without
a reboot in between).

Installing SP2 for Windows XP on the computers solved the problem.

An idea just came to mind.

Could you export the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT
\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
to a file, and post the content of that file here?


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