Wordpad & Paint trying to use a forign language

Frankcw

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Mar 12, 2005, 9:33:55 AM3/12/05

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When I click on print preview in Wordpad & Paint the buttons in the
preview window have blocks on them where there should be text such as
"print" "close" etc. If I do a print preview in other programs the
buttons are fine. It's like it's trying to use a foreign language &
can't display the characters. If I close Wordpad without saving my
document the window asking me to save it has the same problem.

I have a dual boot system & my second system doesn't have this
problem. I tried coping wordpad.exe to my primary system & it didn't
fix it. I was going to uninstall & re-install in add/remove programs
but wordpad isn't there.
How do I fix this?

TIA,
Frank

Ramesh, MS-MVP

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Mar 12, 2005, 9:59:20 AM3/12/05

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Hi Frank,

This happens if the file MFC42LOC.DLL is present in the System32 folder. To
resolve the problem, rename the file MFC42LOC.DLL present in the
C:\Windows\System32 folder (for Windows 2000/XP systems) and
C:\Windows\System (for Windows 9x systems)

The above applies to the following products:

Microsoft Paint
Microsoft WordPad
Microsoft Image Composer
Microsoft MapPoint 2000
Adobe PhotoDeluxe
Corel Photo-Paint

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Dave B

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Mar 12, 2005, 2:41:04 PM3/12/05

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I'v had that problem for two + years. Thanks for solving it, I thought I'd
have it forever!

Dave B

Frankcw

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Mar 12, 2005, 7:12:27 PM3/12/05

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:29:20 +0530, "Ramesh, MS-MVP"
<ram...@online.mvps.org> wrote:

>Hi Frank,
>
>This happens if the file MFC42LOC.DLL is present in the System32 folder. To
>resolve the problem, rename the file MFC42LOC.DLL present in the
>C:\Windows\System32 folder (for Windows 2000/XP systems) and
>C:\Windows\System (for Windows 9x systems)
>
>The above applies to the following products:
>
>Microsoft Paint
>Microsoft WordPad
>Microsoft Image Composer
>Microsoft MapPoint 2000
>Adobe PhotoDeluxe
>Corel Photo-Paint

Thanks You Ramesh.

I've had the problem for some time & that fixed it !!

Frank

Ramesh, MS-MVP

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Mar 12, 2005, 11:40:34 PM3/12/05

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Thanks for the feedback Dave.

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Ramesh, MS-MVP

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Mar 12, 2005, 11:40:18 PM3/12/05

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You're welcome Frank.

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radam42

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Mar 21, 2005, 12:03:04 PM3/21/05

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Ramesh,
Thank you for this information. I have been trying for over a
month to resolve this issue, changing the name of the MFC42LOC.DLL took care
of it. To be more specific I think the print preview toolbar menu had
changed to Japanese characters. It also happened in some other applications.
Your resolution took care of it.

Ron

Ramesh, MS-MVP

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Mar 21, 2005, 10:55:24 PM3/21/05

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Thanks for the feedback Ron.

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