foreign language

[Linda Kay McFarland]

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

 

[Sharon F]

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.

 

[Linda Kay McFarland]

Yes, I have been through there--everything's English and US. It is just so
strange because it is so limited. Linda

 

[Sharon F]

Yes, I have been through there--everything's English and US. It is just so
strange because it is so limited. Linda

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.aspx?scid=kb;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.

 

[Linda Kay McFarland]

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]

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.

 

[Garry W]

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.

 

[Sharon F]

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.