Hi there,

I run an English Language Xp on my computer. Recently, I altered some language settings in an attempt to enable Central European characters but in the process, I enabled Chinese characters as well. Ever since, whenever I open Internet Explorer, my home page (www.google.com.au) automatically opens in Chinese. If I proceed to run a search from this page without changing it back to English first, the results will also be displayed in chinese. Similarly, I play an online game which uses Java and whenever I login into this games Java interface, it again loads in Chinese. Other than that, the Chinese text does not seem to appear anywhere else.

I have tried doing everything I can to reverse whatever I did to create this problem but have had no luck. Can someone please help me?

Thanks you very much,

Operaboy

Have you cleared your IE History and Cookies?

Also try from start Run... cmd

ipconfig /flushdns

Thanks,

I tried both of those. No problem with clearing the history and cookies, thanks. However, when I tried to run the DNS Flush, I got this response:

"Could not flush the DNS Resolver Cache: Function failed during execution."

Do you know how I can fix this?

Now, the cleared history and cookies seemed to have resolved the IE/Google problem but not the Java one. Is this something that the DNS Flush would take care of?

Kindest regards,

Operaboy.

Try turning off IE and any Java applications that might be running then from cmd type:

ipconfig /release

then:

ipconfig /renew

then:

ipconfig /flushdns

You can check for Java apps in the Task Manager. Often listed as JRE...

Task Manager can be opened by right clicking a "blank" area on the bottom Taskbar.