Problem With My Windows 98SE computer ...

[Monroe]

Problem solved with some help from another forum. I was going to delete all this but in case someone may be having the same problem, I have posted in message #3 the reason I probably had this happen.

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Just a few days ago I discovered a problem on my one notebook computers ... I posted a message at the KernelEx message board yesterday, thinking there "might" be a connection with the fact that I had recently installed the newer version of KernelEx 4.5 RC 4 ... have had no replies and I can't be sure there is any connection with this problem and KernelEx. I am posting here also to see if anyone else might report the same problem on their computer or maybe someone could shed some light on what might be causing this to happen and a solution. I will just post what I posted at the KernelEx message board ... it goes into detail about something changing my Control/Alt + Delete window from English to another language ... perhaps German or I almost think it looks Swedish. The Dell computer was OK in early September since I did a Ghost backup at that time and the Control/Alt + Delete box is in English, after I reinstalled the backup ... I had the older KernelEx Final installed at that time. I still have to check my other computers to see what they look like. Anybody else have a Control/Alt + Delete box in a different language that should be English? ... thanks

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I have come across something that may have nothing to do with the new KernelEx 4.5 RC 4 version but I am posting here to see if this has happened to anyone else or if someone can shed some light on this. I have been using the new KEx 4.5 RC 4 for about 3 weeks now ... yesterday I noticed something very strange on one of my notebook computers ... I have 4 notebooks pretty much all set up the same with Windows 98SE. Last night on my Dell Latitude I went to press Control/Alt + Delete and all the wording was no longer in English ... it could be German or maybe Swedish. Everything in the box has changed but the programs to shut down are still in English and everything else on my computer is still English, I have found nothing else on my Dell computer that has changed from English. I have a Ghost backup made in early Sept of all 4 notebooks so I reinstalled the Dell backup and when I checked the Control/Alt + Delete box, everything was in English. I did a few updates from the Sept backup and everything was still English ... Then I took off the KEx Final 2 version that I now had on the Dell from the backup and installed the new KEx 4.5 RC 4. Unfortunately, I didn't check the Control/Alt + Delete right after that ... maybe 10 minutes later after maybe another update or two ... anyway, when I did check the Con/Alt + Delete area again the language had changed from English to the other language. As I said earlier, all my computers are pretty much set up the same so this morning I am on my NEC as I type this message. All my computers have the new KEx 4.5 RC 4 installed ... so when I went to check the Con/Alt + Delete on this computer ... it is OK, everything is in English as it should be. I didn't have time to check the other two computers. So now I am puzzled why English in just that one area got changed to another language and why only on the Dell computer and not the NEC. The Dell Ghost backup from Sept is OK but something changed it after I did the updates ... but I have the same updates on the NEC and nothing has changed. As I said earlier, this may not be related to KernelEx at all since it has only happened to the one computer. Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ...

Edited October 19, 2010 by duffy98

[jds]

I suspect the reason you've had no previous replies, is that no one has seen such a problem, nor can think of a cause. In cases such as this, the stock reply is typically "try scanning for malware" - well, it can't hurt to try.

Oh, and check if the "foreign" text is genuine text, or just English text with the wrong character encoding (eg. check word lengths, sentence structure, etc.).

Joe.

Edited October 19, 2010 by jds

[Monroe]

I may have been given a solution to my problem and a simple fix ... to install the newer version of KernelEx I needed to reinstall the kernel32.dll ... for the other computers I extracted the kernel32.dll from my Windows 98SE cd ... but for the Dell when I was doing the install of the newer version of KernelEx, I did not have the Windows 98SE cd at hand and went on the internet to find a copy of the kernel32.dll. I thought I found one that looked OK but it must have been a Swedish version. They all say "kernel32.dll" I guess ... anyway, that now makes sense to me. A very knowledgeable person at the K-Meleon forum came up with the idea and a picture of what I am seeing. He had run into a similar problem with a dll he needed for XP and it changed some things into Spanish on his computer. I am almost 100% sure this is what probably happened to that one computer.

From K-Meleon forum: I just copied what he said about his download problem.

"you downloaded the file, and replaced it in dos maybe.. but that kernel32 you got from there is swedish not english because that site have libraries in many languages and the sites never tell you the locale. It happened to me before when i downloaded an ie xp dll which i've maimed and later found out many of ie security prompts turning into spanish"

So I learned about something I was not aware of.

Edited October 19, 2010 by duffy98

[hottext]

next time look in

C:\WINDOWS\options

same time you can fine all the win98 CABS there!

And in the cabs files is the kernel32.dll for win98

Edited October 19, 2010 by hottext

[Monroe]

hottext ... yes, should of thought of that but didn't at the time. Some days I'm at the top of my game and the other days I squeak by!