my windows xp pro english GUI has changed to arabic

[Tigger]

At some point many of my system dialogs stopped displaying english and
started using some arabic style language/characters. This language is also
right to left based as the layout have changed.

As examples:

My Computers system properties has two tabs that have changed to this
language.
The firewall dialog and security center dialog is completely foreign
Several of the control panel icons have their labels and properties in this
changed language.

I've searched around the web and news groups and not found a similar problem
or way to re-change the language back

I've checked all the settings I can think of including searching the
registry for any language code type entries. Everything seems set to
australian or us english.

Can anyone help?

Tigger

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

At some point many of my system dialogs stopped displaying english and
started using some arabic style language/characters. This language is also
right to left based as the layout have changed.

As examples:

My Computers system properties has two tabs that have changed to this
language.
The firewall dialog and security center dialog is completely foreign
Several of the control panel icons have their labels and properties in
this changed language.

I've searched around the web and news groups and not found a similar
problem or way to re-change the language back

I've checked all the settings I can think of including searching the
registry for any language code type entries. Everything seems set to
australian or us english.

Can anyone help?

Tigger

Right-to-left language support needs to be installed specifically under
Windows. It cannot happen by itself. Did you perhaps at some stage
experiment with Arabic fonts? If so then you need to undo the
changes in Control Panel / Regional Settings. If not then I suspect
that you are the victim of some malware. Use System Restore to
go back to a safe point. You can invoke it like so from the Run
box: %SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe

 

[HeyBub]

At some point many of my system dialogs stopped displaying english and
started using some arabic style language/characters. This language is
also right to left based as the layout have changed.

As examples:

My Computers system properties has two tabs that have changed to this
language.
The firewall dialog and security center dialog is completely foreign
Several of the control panel icons have their labels and properties
in this changed language.

I've searched around the web and news groups and not found a similar
problem or way to re-change the language back

I've checked all the settings I can think of including searching the
registry for any language code type entries. Everything seems set to
australian or us english.

Can anyone help?

Taliban/Al-Qaeda attack?

 

[Tigger]

Right-to-left language support needs to be installed specifically under
Windows. It cannot happen by itself. Did you perhaps at some stage
experiment with Arabic fonts? If so then you need to undo the
changes in Control Panel / Regional Settings. If not then I suspect
that you are the victim of some malware. Use System Restore to
go back to a safe point. You can invoke it like so from the Run
box: %SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe

I tried a few times switching the regional settings with no results. I did
notice that there are a bunch of extra arabic font language options in the
format dropdown.

I've also tried restoring back about a month and it failed. I'm going to try
closer restore points to see if I can get it to work.

Cheers

Tigger

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I tried a few times switching the regional settings with no results. I did
notice that there are a bunch of extra arabic font language options in the
format dropdown.

I've also tried restoring back about a month and it failed. I'm going to
try closer restore points to see if I can get it to work.

Cheers

Tigger

If you did not install any Arabic stuff then you should start looking
for a prankster around you.

 

[PA Bear]

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

 

[TiggerTwo]

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive softwarehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows(IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Adminhttp://aumha.net
DTS-Lhttp://dts-l.org/

I did a windows repair which solved it. I used this website as a guide
on how to do it:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Tigger