Strange language problem at bootup
- From: Austin, <Austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 06:06:07 -0800
Laptop, English version of XP bought in UK, setup to use English UK, with UK
keybard.
I rebooted my laptop this morning only to discover I could not then log in,
as soon as I tried to type my password the mouse and keyboard would freeze
and I would have to powercycle. The same happens in safe mode.
I then noticed that next to the password box, the language was showing as CY
(welsh?) which I dont even have installed afaik (not shown in control panel
language settings).
Using the net, I learned that I could hold alt+shift to switch languages and
this allows me to login at least, however the problems dont stop there.
Many of the services are not properly working on my laptop now.
Specifically services which use a background service such as vmware player or
cisco vpn client. They complain they cant contact the service (even thought
the service is running according to the services control panel applet).
Restarting the service doesnt help.
I wonder if those services are running in Welsh also, and are in conflict
with their clients running in English???
Anyway, regardless of that. How can I set my system back to using EN by
default instead of CY, so that I dont have to prat around to login. I tried
playing around with the default language, specifically I did
- Added English (United States) and made it the default (only had UK
installed)
- Make English (United Kingdom) default again
However, when I reboot the keyboard is still set to CY!
Hopefully when I properly resolve the language issue, the issues with the
services will go away.
.
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