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Vroooom

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First, the pleasantries:
Howdy, all.

Now, the less-pleasant bits....
I've been trying Win8 for a few weeks and am just starting to get the hang of things.
Then all of a sudden, yesterday, I start seeing Chinese on the app icons.
Being the sly and resourceful fella that I am....I googled it.
That lead me to a forum post, somewhere, of someone else having the same issue. The recommendation to that similarly afflicted poor soul, was that they should "refresh" their system and that doing so would fix the Chinese without harming any programs files or settings.

By-golly...I needed me some of that cure-all. So I went and done it.


Guess what....


Wiped my system. Me not happy camper. grr ugh!


So Ive spent the past day trying to rebuild everything.

Oh, and the most lovely part of all.....now I got Chinese EVERYWHERE. Its on the app icons, its in Internet explorer websites, its in firefox websites.

Yes, Ive checked my language setting...english. But the displays are chinese.

Any helpful hints? (other than not to be an idiot by trying to be an early-adapter...at my obviously insufficient skill-level)

Thanks for your help.

V
 

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I did not see that.

But now I have seen it.

And I did it.

And I rebooted.

AND NOW I CAN SEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (uhh...in English)

Thank you for sharing the solution to hours of aggravation.

So.....have any helpful hints on how I can reinstall Expression Suite now that I apparently have a corrupted key store?

How about suggestions on an expedient way to shut-down a Win8 system?

The penalty for knowing so much....is developing a following of novices like me hoping you continue to drop crumbs of wisdom.

Thanks again.
V
 

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I did not see that.

But now I have seen it.

And I did it.

And I rebooted.

AND NOW I CAN SEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (uhh...in English)

Thank you for sharing the solution to hours of aggravation.

Glad I could help :)

So.....have any helpful hints on how I can reinstall Expression Suite now that I apparently have a corrupted key store?

If you're referring to the license store there is a fix that may work - FIX : Product key is not accepted when you install or activate ...

How about suggestions on an expedient way to shut-down a Win8 system?

Apart from pulling the power cord :party:

Here's some ideas:
Shutdown Windows 8 From System Tray With NPowerTray
Trick: Create Shutdown or Restart buttons on your desktop or taskbar
Lock, Log off, Restart, Shut Down, Switch User - Windows 8
 

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System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate/Windows 8.1/Linux
    CPU
    FX-8350
    Motherboard
    GA-990XA-UD3
    Memory
    16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD7860
    Sound Card
    Xonar Essence STX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Benq
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Various
    PSU
    Corsair HX 850W
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian
    Cooling
    Thermalright
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech
    Internet Speed
    50/50
    Browser
    firefox
You call that a joke???

I call it reality.

Seriously, that's how I got here....translated from Chinese.

Honest...it wasn't fun. but now its fixed. (Happy Dance)

I'll try the other helpful hints and see if I can get those resolved too.

Then I'll have to find something else to snivel about. LOL

Thanks all.
 

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Ok, now this is just getting f-ing wierd.
I spoke too soon.
Calico's guidance (above) did, indeed, resolve my Chinese app icons....thank you again. :)
However, I am still experiencing problems with several (but not all) websites displaying in chinese.
This is true in IE9 as well as in Firefox11...but doesn't happen in Safari.
I rechecked my language settings per Calico's reply. Not only did I insure that English is my top preference...but ALL other languages have been REMOVED.
Any additional hints would be greatly appreciated.
(Dont say "just use Safari" hahahahaha)
 

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Ok, now this is just getting f-ing wierd.
I spoke too soon.
Calico's guidance (above) did, indeed, resolve my Chinese app icons....thank you again. :)
However, I am still experiencing problems with several (but not all) websites displaying in chinese.
This is true in IE9 as well as in Firefox11...but doesn't happen in Safari.
I rechecked my language settings per Calico's reply. Not only did I insure that English is my top preference...but ALL other languages have been REMOVED.
Any additional hints would be greatly appreciated.
(Dont say "just use Safari" hahahahaha)

Just to be clear. When you say "websites displaying in chinese" you mean the actual site content as opposed to the browser interface?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate/Windows 8.1/Linux
    CPU
    FX-8350
    Motherboard
    GA-990XA-UD3
    Memory
    16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD7860
    Sound Card
    Xonar Essence STX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Benq
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Various
    PSU
    Corsair HX 850W
    Case
    Corsair Obsidian
    Cooling
    Thermalright
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech
    Internet Speed
    50/50
    Browser
    firefox
Here is what I see:

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Vroom, several posts back, you told us that you had wiped and rebuilt your system. Have you tried reinstalling your operating system? Have you tried downloading a different browser and seeing if that works? It really looks like you've got a software problem. Somewhere along the line you gave the wrong instructions.
 

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    Windows 8
I have not tried reinstalling win8.
If I reinstall anything again...I'll go back to Win7 Entp

The weirdest thing is that the issue of Chinese font only occurs in like 10% of the websites I visit....no apparent commonality.
It happens in IE9 as well as Firefox 10....but not in Safari.
In happens in pop-up windows like the Adobe reader window in the screenshot....but the Chinese font is only in the body of the window message, not the header of the window.

I'm kinda thinking its a font deal....but I checked "Languages" and English is the only one installed.
 

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Ding! Ding! Ding!
Ladies and gentlemen, we appear to have a winner. :)

Im Using "
"Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Evaluation Copy. Build 8250"

Which I downloaded directly from Microsoft...validated...updated...blah blah blah...

Then I thought yall might also be referring to my version of Adobe Reader...downloaded directly from Adobe.

I thought it odd that if it were a Chinese version, the headers would be in English but I did some checking...it took some moderate sluthing but I did finally worm my way down to the program properties and discovered>>>>
TADAH!!!! "Adobe Reader 10.1.3 - Chinese Simplified"

Well I uninstalled that bugger faster than extracting a tick from your...uhhhh....self.

While I was in my uninstall frenzy, I went ahead and chunked everything from Adobe (Flashplayers).

Rebooted. Revisited the same sites illustrated in the screen shots above.....not a chicken-scratch to be seen anywhere.

ALL BETTER!!!!!

I dunno how a PDF reader can effect the way a SMALL percentage of search returns on two different browsers. But apparently it did cuz removing the Adobe...removed the problem.

Now I'll install Adobe Reader X and make (darn) sure its the red-neck version so I don't get myself confounded again.

Thanks again to all of you for leading me down the troubleshooting path.
 

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