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For some reason, the pop up boxes in WordPad, and paint are in a foreign
language. The main menus and directions are all in English but the box to save document and others are not readable. How can I get the English back. Linda |
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:58:20 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote:
For some reason, the pop up boxes in WordPad, and paint are in a foreign language. The main menus and directions are all in English but the box to save document and others are not readable. How can I get the English back. Linda Have you checked all Language settings in Control Panel Regional and Language Options? There are several locations within this control panel so go over all of the settings in the nested carefully. -- Sharon F MS MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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Yes, I have been through there--everything's English and US. It is just so
strange because it is so limited. Linda "Sharon F" wrote in message ... On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:58:20 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote: For some reason, the pop up boxes in WordPad, and paint are in a foreign language. The main menus and directions are all in English but the box to save document and others are not readable. How can I get the English back. Linda Have you checked all Language settings in Control Panel Regional and Language Options? There are several locations within this control panel so go over all of the settings in the nested carefully. -- Sharon F MS MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 03:28:29 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote:
Yes, I have been through there--everything's English and US. It is just so strange because it is so limited. Linda "Sharon F" wrote in message ... On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:58:20 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote: For some reason, the pop up boxes in WordPad, and paint are in a foreign language. The main menus and directions are all in English but the box to save document and others are not readable. How can I get the English back. Linda Have you checked all Language settings in Control Panel Regional and Language Options? There are several locations within this control panel so go over all of the settings in the nested carefully. Okay... This problem has come up before but I can never find anything in the MS Knowledge Base about it. Some other suggestions: o Check out this article: Text and Buttons in Dialog Boxes May Be Incorrectly Formatted http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;283055 Basically it's saying that your Unicode settings for non-Unicode programs should be set in Control Panel Regional and Language Options Advanced to your preferred language. You have already checked this area but I took a look at mine. I notice that "Apply all settings to the current user account and to the default user profile" is *not* checked. Don't know if that makes a difference or not but if you have a check mark in that box, try removing it. Restart if prompted. Then open Paint or Wordpad and check those dialogs to see if they are still in the wrong language. o Locate the file mfc42loc.dll and, if found, check its properties. This file tells mfc42.dll what language to use in some dialog and menu boxes. Installing a program that comes in multiple languages (or installing an update that is not the same language as the operating system) will occasionally drop a copy of this file that does not match the users language settings. Renaming or deleting the file allows Windows to use the language settings instead the language noted by the file. NOTE: My XP installation is over 2 years old and I do not have any copies of the mfc42loc.dll file on my system. Do NOT rename or move the mfc42.dll file. That is a normal file and should be left alone. o If this language change occured recently, use System Restore to go back to a date/time where the problem did not exist. NOTE: You will need to reinstall any updates and patches that were added to the system *after* the system restore date selected. Also, if you keep any important files on the desktop, move them to My Documents as certain file types on the desktop will be removed if they were not present before. My Documents is not touched by System Restore so your files will be safe there. -- Sharon F MS MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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Thank you-- I had already tried unchecking that box "Apply all settings to
the current user account and to the default user profile" " which did not help. Deleting the "mfc42loc.dll " file took care of the problem. It was not really a problem as it was generally just in the Do you want to save this document box, but it was perplexing and annoying, and just another time the computer makes changes on its own which drives me nuts. It just seemed like there should be a solution. Thanks for giving to me. Linda "Sharon F" wrote in message ... On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 03:28:29 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote: Yes, I have been through there--everything's English and US. It is just so strange because it is so limited. Linda "Sharon F" wrote in message ... On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:58:20 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote: For some reason, the pop up boxes in WordPad, and paint are in a foreign language. The main menus and directions are all in English but the box to save document and others are not readable. How can I get the English back. Linda Have you checked all Language settings in Control Panel Regional and Language Options? There are several locations within this control panel so go over all of the settings in the nested carefully. Okay... This problem has come up before but I can never find anything in the MS Knowledge Base about it. Some other suggestions: o Check out this article: Text and Buttons in Dialog Boxes May Be Incorrectly Formatted http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;283055 Basically it's saying that your Unicode settings for non-Unicode programs should be set in Control Panel Regional and Language Options Advanced to your preferred language. You have already checked this area but I took a look at mine. I notice that "Apply all settings to the current user account and to the default user profile" is *not* checked. Don't know if that makes a difference or not but if you have a check mark in that box, try removing it. Restart if prompted. Then open Paint or Wordpad and check those dialogs to see if they are still in the wrong language. o Locate the file mfc42loc.dll and, if found, check its properties. This file tells mfc42.dll what language to use in some dialog and menu boxes. Installing a program that comes in multiple languages (or installing an update that is not the same language as the operating system) will occasionally drop a copy of this file that does not match the users language settings. Renaming or deleting the file allows Windows to use the language settings instead the language noted by the file. NOTE: My XP installation is over 2 years old and I do not have any copies of the mfc42loc.dll file on my system. Do NOT rename or move the mfc42.dll file. That is a normal file and should be left alone. o If this language change occured recently, use System Restore to go back to a date/time where the problem did not exist. NOTE: You will need to reinstall any updates and patches that were added to the system *after* the system restore date selected. Also, if you keep any important files on the desktop, move them to My Documents as certain file types on the desktop will be removed if they were not present before. My Documents is not touched by System Restore so your files will be safe there. -- Sharon F MS MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 02:33:52 GMT, Linda Kay McFarland wrote:
Thank you-- I had already tried unchecking that box "Apply all settings to the current user account and to the default user profile" " which did not help. Deleting the "mfc42loc.dll " file took care of the problem. It was not really a problem as it was generally just in the Do you want to save this document box, but it was perplexing and annoying, and just another time the computer makes changes on its own which drives me nuts. It just seemed like there should be a solution. Thanks for giving to me. Linda You're very welcome and thanks for posting feedback about what fixed the problem for you. It will help someone else that runs into the same problem. -- Sharon F MS MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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Sharon F wrote:
o Locate the file mfc42loc.dll and, if found, check its properties. This file tells mfc42.dll what language to use in some dialog and menu boxes. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I've been searching for that Windows bug for almost two years! The dialog boxes in =all= my apps are now back to English. Instead of some of them being in German. Hurrah!! Garry PS - I call it a "Windows bug" because it's undocumented, little known (judging by the small number of Google hits), hard to fix (you may have to boot to DOS), and because the official method of changing languages - the Regional Options control panel - unexpectedly fails to completely change the language. Microsoft, you listening? I'm running Win2000, so this particular bug has been around for a while. |
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:05:13 -0700, Garry W wrote:
Sharon F wrote: o Locate the file mfc42loc.dll and, if found, check its properties. This file tells mfc42.dll what language to use in some dialog and menu boxes. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I've been searching for that Windows bug for almost two years! The dialog boxes in =all= my apps are now back to English. Instead of some of them being in German. Hurrah!! Garry PS - I call it a "Windows bug" because it's undocumented, little known (judging by the small number of Google hits), hard to fix (you may have to boot to DOS), and because the official method of changing languages - the Regional Options control panel - unexpectedly fails to completely change the language. Microsoft, you listening? I'm running Win2000, so this particular bug has been around for a while. You're welcome, Garry. Glad to have helped. -- Sharon F MS MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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