hi all, re-booted my pc as normal a few days back and when it loaded back up the english language seems to have disappeared and has now been replaced by some unknown language, makes it hard to do anything, anyone kno a way of fixing this?

any help much appreciated, iv attached a screenshot to give you an idea of what im up against

Go to Control Panel - Regional & Language Settings and make sure English is selected. If it is, you need to run a full scan with BOTH your Anti Virus utility AND MalwareBytes (which you might want to do in any case)

By the way, in the future you should give your thread a subject that relates to the specific problem you are having.sorry about the thread title, didnt know what to PUT in there

as for going to the control panel, i have managed to find my way there thru using the icons, but when im there, theres no way off tellling what is what (attached a screenshot) same with virus scans, i have them installed but its near impossible to use now

Okay, you obviously have a LITTLE problem here

If your AV came on CD and has a boot time scan option, use that. If not, download a boot time AV scanner from the web, burn it to CD, and run it.thanks for your help Allan, will download at a friends and try thatYou're welcome and good luck it looks like the "Tahoma" Font and/or MS Sans Serif Fonts are missing or corrupted; Or, the values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows NT\currentversion\fontsubstitutes for MS SHELL Dlg and MS Shell Dlg 2 are corrupted or point to the wrong font, which in this case appears to be symbol.



If your able to see in a command prompt window, try this command:

Code: [Select]reg query "HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\fontsubstitutes\" /s
Look at the entries for MS Shell Dlg and MS Shell Dlg 2, and ensure they are a readable font (Tahoma is the default). If either is not, try this command:

Code: [Select]reg add "HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\fontsubstitutes" /v "MS Shell Dlg" /t REG_SZ /d Tahoma

and for MS Shell dlg 2:

Code: [Select]reg add "HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\fontsubstitutes" /v "MS Shell Dlg" /t REG_SZ /d Tahoma

If the value is Tahoma, you could try changing it to another font, such as Times New Roman; after changing them, reboot. If it works, at least you'll be able to read things; find out what happened to Tahoma, the default font, though.



when you go to this picture
where the line is HIGHLIGHTED go on the beginning and chose the 47-Th line which is English (United STATES).

Probably it will help you.

Cheers.