IE7 Title bar shows up in Chinese instead of my language

IE7 Title bar shows up in Chinese instead of my language

• Hoowah

  I can't help you but you are not alone. I have the same problem and I don't know what to do either.
  

• Daniel Gonzalez Gasull

  Go to this site to stop the run once program, it worked for me. I am still trying to find how to get rid of the chinese writing.

  http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php showtopic=75475

  I hope this helps.

  
  

• Santor

  On the menu bar in Firefox, click on tools/options/privacy tab/settings/check all boxes you want and then click OK. Thats how it worked for me.
  

• MichaelLatta

  I recently purchased a Gateway computer after my previous computer died and I began reinstalling all of my software. In the process I was prompted to install IE 7. Shortly after I started using it, I began experiencing Chinese in the title bar.

  I was unable to find anything about this problem on the Internet with the exception of this group discussion.

  This morning I uninstalled TurboPasswords, which is an application that works with your browser to store passwords. Today I was shutting down my computer and I got an error message relating to TurboPasswords and decided to uninstall it because I never use it anyway.

  After rebooting, the Chinese title bar is no longer!!

  This may indicate that applications that work with the browser may be at fault.

  Hope that helps.

  
  
  

• thomas_woelfer

  Here's the response from the TurboPasswords vendor:

  The latest upgrade to TurboPasswords 4.0 will resolve this problem.  If you purchased TurboPasswords in the past, you are eligible to purchase the upgrade to TurboPasswords for $9.95.

   

  Here is a link to our website where you may make the purchase http://www.chapura.com/passwordmanager.php.

   

  I upgraded, and it does indeed solve the problem.

   

  
  

• cgraus

  Your symtoms are exactly like mine. This ticks me off. I have also deleted and reinstalled it and it installs the same way each time.

  OK microsoft what gives and how do we fix this problem

  
  

• Rajesh batchu

  OMG, I did it. I figured out how to fix this ANNOYING Chinese in the title bar problem. I have been having this same problem ever since I built my new computer and put IE7 on. But today, after just messing around I figured it out.

  It's actually really simple. Go to Tools/Internet options and click on the Advanced tab. then at the bottom it should have a button that says reset. Take head of the warning. It will take you back down to bare bones, non updated IE7. (allthough your favorites will stay intact though, so dont worry about that) You will have to update your IE7 if you so choose, and reinstall any toolbars ie. google toolbar, and change all of your settings back the way you want them. Im not sure about plug-ins yet though.

  But thats it. Hit that button. Close IE, and reopen it. It will ask you all the stupid questions it asked you when you first installed IE7 and will want you to update, but thats it. So far I havent had any problems with the title bar, the tabs, or anything else since I did this. So Allert the Internets. I am a genious. WOO HOO!

  Good luck to you all, and I hope this helps.

  I hope I go down in the record books for fixing yet another sh**ty microsoft product.

  
  

• Dietz

  I can't help with a permanent fix, but I've found if you open a second (or more) tab, then close the original tab which opened with IE, you will get the correct display in the title bar.

  I originally saw this problem with Acrobat Reader on my system, but IE6 was OK. I only saw it with IE when I installed 7.

  Looking at other forums, it seems that quite a few people are experiencing this issue, but no one has come up with a permanent fix.

  
  

• pinoyz

  I also use TurboPasswords in addition to Firefox. I uninstalled TurboPasswords and the IE7 title bar showed up correctly. I use TP frequently, so I reinstalled it. The garbled IE7 title bar returned. I'm going to contact the TurboPasswords vendor to see if they have a patch.
  
  
  

• Lars Brange

  could anybody help me with this problem please

   i've already removed and re-installed it twice too.

  AND I got the blue runonce.aspx screen with no options .. just an empty blue screen !

  
  

• BIG S

  Well I figured out my problem. I use Mozilla Firefox a lot as one of my internet browsers and I never deleted the cache and cookies from that program. It keeps its own information separate form Microsoft Explorer7 and I always deleted the cache and cookies in that program. Once I deleted that information and turned off an antispam program called Defender Pro Antispam I ran adaware and spybot search and destroy. It fixed my problem and no more Chinese. I believe I had the 'AdCom' malware/spyware on my computer and since I never deleted anything in Firefox it always came back. Now that it is gone everything is working properly. I hope this helps some of you in any way.
  

• dgracey

  I am also using Firefox and IE7 and have the same problem. How did you clear the caches in the two browsers
  
  
  

• Bill McKnight

  yes you are right, when I close my first opened window (if I got more tabs opened) then the title shows correctly..

  someone told me he had the same problem, uninstalled the IE7 and deleted the map 'ie7' in the 'WINDOWS' map. This didn't help for me!

  tho I still get the blue page with no options to set, you know, the first run page.

  
  
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