Windows dialogs partially in Arabic language on English XP

Tom Tyson

Out of nowhere, my XP system decided to start displaying specific system
dialogs and messages in Hebrew or some other Arabic language. While most
part of XPs built in applications and dialogs are still displaying in
English, a number of them are partially or fully displaying in their Arabic
version (right to left with arabic font).

For example, this affects the control panel applets for Security Center,
Bluetooth and the Networking Wizard. When I say it affects these items, I
mean both the control panel labels and their respective dialog boxes
including all contained text. Another example is the


The System is XP Pro SP2 with all updates installed.

I have
* been running daily AVG anti virus updates and full scans, nothing found
* a NAT firewall, logs show nothing unusual
* a software firewall not showing anything abnormal
* run a spyware scan with S&D, nothing
* run sfc/scannow with no findings
* searched the MS Knowledge Base with no luck


Anyone? I desperately need to recover this system.

Paul Randall

"Tom Tyson" <no@spam.org> wrote in message
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> Out of nowhere, my XP system decided to start displaying specific system
> dialogs and messages in Hebrew or some other Arabic language. While most
> part of XPs built in applications and dialogs are still displaying in
> English, a number of them are partially or fully displaying in their
> Arabic version (right to left with arabic font).
>
> For example, this affects the control panel applets for Security Center,
> Bluetooth and the Networking Wizard. When I say it affects these items, I
> mean both the control panel labels and their respective dialog boxes
> including all contained text. Another example is the
>
>
> The System is XP Pro SP2 with all updates installed.
>
> I have
> * been running daily AVG anti virus updates and full scans, nothing found
> * a NAT firewall, logs show nothing unusual
> * a software firewall not showing anything abnormal
> * run a spyware scan with S&D, nothing
> * run sfc/scannow with no findings
> * searched the MS Knowledge Base with no luck
>
>
> Anyone? I desperately need to recover this system.

I posted a similar problem to this newsgroup in June.
I was told:
This happens if the file MFC42LOC.DLL is present in the C:\Windows\System32
folder. This is a localization file used by various programs, and deleting
this file (always backup first) should resolve the problem.

I renamed the file and the problem was fixed.

-Paul Randall

Tom Tyson

Thanks Paul,

but I don't have that file on my system. If you can still locate that
thread, could you provide a link to it?

Thanks,
Tom


"Paul Randall" <paulr901@cableone.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Tom Tyson" <no@spam.org> wrote in message
> news:f8qd3c$qug$1@newsreader2.netcologne.de...
>> Out of nowhere, my XP system decided to start displaying specific system
>> dialogs and messages in Hebrew or some other Arabic language. While most
>> part of XPs built in applications and dialogs are still displaying in
>> English, a number of them are partially or fully displaying in their
>> Arabic version (right to left with arabic font).
>>
>> For example, this affects the control panel applets for Security Center,
>> Bluetooth and the Networking Wizard. When I say it affects these items, I
>> mean both the control panel labels and their respective dialog boxes
>> including all contained text. Another example is the
>>
>>
>> The System is XP Pro SP2 with all updates installed.
>>
>> I have
>> * been running daily AVG anti virus updates and full scans, nothing found
>> * a NAT firewall, logs show nothing unusual
>> * a software firewall not showing anything abnormal
>> * run a spyware scan with S&D, nothing
>> * run sfc/scannow with no findings
>> * searched the MS Knowledge Base with no luck
>>
>>
>> Anyone? I desperately need to recover this system.
>
> I posted a similar problem to this newsgroup in June.
> I was told:
> This happens if the file MFC42LOC.DLL is present in the
> C:\Windows\System32
> folder. This is a localization file used by various programs, and deleting
> this file (always backup first) should resolve the problem.
>
> I renamed the file and the problem was fixed.
>
> -Paul Randall
>