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<blockquote data-quote="HugeOgre" data-source="post: 3120541" data-attributes="member: 38157">Proof even the experts need help sometimes. My wife's WIndows XP Media Edition had gotten corrupted some time ago, and would no longer play the TV functions. It otherwise seemed to be operating fine. I got a wild hair to reinstall the OS as an &quot;upgrade&quot;, hoping to refresh some of the corrupted or lost system files. It wouldnt reinstall from the DVD, so I was forced to run the install from Windows and the C:\i386 directory. The reinstall went reasonably well, except it couldnt find a file called mstask.ini. I couldnt find this file on any of my other non Media edition computers, so I proceeded without it (having no real other choice). The rest of the installation went pretty well, all though I did occasionally have to remind the install it was pulling files from the i386 directory. When it finished booting though and came up, I logged in, and everything initially looked fine. THen I noticed the squiggles.(Theres an attachment that shows an example. I assume its arabic)The overwhelming majority of my programs and the OS look perfectly fine. Whenever I save a file, get a 404 error, or try to look at certain pages in the Internet options Im confronted with Arabic. Its also in my network settings in the Control Panel, and the Firewall and AUtomatic Updates, as well as a couple of other icons in the control panel also appear in arabic. The regional settings say English. I changed them to UK English and back again to no avail. I havent the foggiest what has happened, nor how to fix it. Any ideas?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HugeOgre, post: 3120541, member: 38157"] Proof even the experts need help sometimes. My wife's WIndows XP Media Edition had gotten corrupted some time ago, and would no longer play the TV functions. It otherwise seemed to be operating fine. I got a wild hair to reinstall the OS as an "upgrade", hoping to refresh some of the corrupted or lost system files. It wouldnt reinstall from the DVD, so I was forced to run the install from Windows and the C:\i386 directory. The reinstall went reasonably well, except it couldnt find a file called mstask.ini. I couldnt find this file on any of my other non Media edition computers, so I proceeded without it (having no real other choice). The rest of the installation went pretty well, all though I did occasionally have to remind the install it was pulling files from the i386 directory. When it finished booting though and came up, I logged in, and everything initially looked fine. THen I noticed the squiggles. (Theres an attachment that shows an example. I assume its arabic) The overwhelming majority of my programs and the OS look perfectly fine. Whenever I save a file, get a 404 error, or try to look at certain pages in the Internet options Im confronted with Arabic. Its also in my network settings in the Control Panel, and the Firewall and AUtomatic Updates, as well as a couple of other icons in the control panel also appear in arabic. The regional settings say English. I changed them to UK English and back again to no avail. I havent the foggiest what has happened, nor how to fix it. Any ideas? [/QUOTE]

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