English softwares changed to chinese characters

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Control Panel/Regional Settings app controls some of that. There are language packs you can install, but they cost money, and I
doubt he bought them.

Rightclick any IE page, and see "encoding' to set to "Western European"

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Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"urxtream" <urxtream@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:88E67DD0-EC67-4ED7-A859-FAF3D4A8013B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I'm new on this forum and I really need some help.
> I formatted my pc the other day and my brother played around with it and now
> some of my softwares/prgrams are in chinese. Please help as to how I can
> change them back to english. Thanks
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> I don't know much about computers !