Windows dialogs partly in Arabic

[Dylan Nicholson]

Someone else posted this recently, with no satisfactory response - but
now I have the same problem, my control panel is full of items that
are partly in Arabic.
I've rolled back a bunch of Windows Updates, to no effect.

I know I DID recently get infected with a nasty virus (including the
xpdx.sys rootkit - which has still left a registry key I can't
delete), so whether this has anything to do with it I don't know.

 

[Bob I]

Change the permissions on the key so you can. (Edit, Permisions, Or
r-click the key)

 

[Dylan Nicholson]

Change the permissions on the key so you can. (Edit, Permisions, Or
r-click the key)

Nope, tried that (and tried setting the permissions from higher level
keys, tried logging in as Administrator to do, etc. etc., won't let me
even change the permission).

Anyway, that had nothing to do with the problem - I reinstalled SP2
and all but one of the icons fixed itself, that being the Security
Center. I used TweakUI to remove and readd that icon to Control Panel
and now it's fine too. Go figure.

 

[Bob I]

Nope, tried that (and tried setting the permissions from higher level
keys, tried logging in as Administrator to do, etc. etc., won't let me
even change the permission).

Anyway, that had nothing to do with the problem - I reinstalled SP2
and all but one of the icons fixed itself, that being the Security
Center. I used TweakUI to remove and readd that icon to Control Panel
and now it's fine too. Go figure.

thank you for posting back with your resolution.

 

[Tigger]

thank you for posting back with your resolution.

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