my windows xp pro english GUI has changed to arabic

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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
 
"Tigger" <mccreath@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> 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
 
Tigger wrote:
> 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?
 
"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Tigger" <mccreath@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:dridnZbKxPhhg9nanZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d@adnap.net.au...
>> 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
>

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
 
"Tigger" <mccreath@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:ujs$VqDLIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Tigger" <mccreath@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
>> news:dridnZbKxPhhg9nanZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d@adnap.net.au...
>>> 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
>>
>
> 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.
 
Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.org/

Tigger wrote:
> 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
 
On Nov 22, 3:00 am, "PA Bear" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive softwarehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows(IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Adminhttp://aumha.net
> DTS-Lhttp://dts-l.org/
>
> Tigger wrote:
> > At some point many ofmysystem dialogs stopped displayingenglishand
> > started using somearabicstyle language/characters. This language is also
> > right to left based as the layout havechanged.
>
> > As examples:
>
> >MyComputers system propertieshastwo tabs that havechangedto 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
> >changedlanguage.
>
> > 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 usenglish.
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> > Tigger

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
 

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