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I type and the charactors that appear are wrong, i.e., I type 'abcd' or 'test' and I see '2345' or 'E6DE'

I type and the charactors that appear are wrong, i.e., I type 'abcd' or 'test' and I see '2345' or 'E6DE'

THIS HAPPENS IN MY APPLICATIONS, EDITPAD PRO, YAHOO MESSAGE WINDOW, QUICKBOOKS, WORDPERFECT 10,

AND DOES NOT HAPPEN IN WORDPAD, NOTEPAD OR THIS QUESTION BODY

my default font is ARIAL in applications. and if I change the font choice, I get different results. Seems like the font pointer(s) are out of wack. I tried uninstalling fonts and installing them back, rebooting each time, etc. I cannot use my main applications until this is resolved.

suggestion?

Reggie


Try this

Open tweak to the Repair page
Choose the Repair Fonts then click the button
a) Try doing inplace upgrade of windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292175

b) Repairing, Recovering, and Restoring an Installation of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268106

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Solution:

delete the none english keyboard (control panel, keyboard, input locales, change....) AND language bar, remove check from 'show the language bar on the desktop

problem solved