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I think I am going to go crazy

Apr 29, 2005 4:27AM PDT

I think I am going to go crazy
I do not know if these two problems are realted:

1. All of the sudden, in my text and HTML email signatures show up with the characters  above them. They just get put in there automatically and it is highly annoying to constantly delete them.

2. When I go to certain web pages, I get a "?" where there should be bullets, or an " ' " symbol or a trademark (tm) symbol. This doe snot happen on my coworkers pc's looking at the same website.

What's hapenin'?

Please help me.

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Apr 29, 2005 7:05AM PDT

Check and carefully compare all settings in Config Panel > International and (in IE) View>Codeset, or whatever it is in English (it's between 'font size' and 'source').

Or possibly some font is corrupted. That's more difficult to repair, but you can try sfc /scannow (in XP). It helps if you can find out what font it is (the font used by 'certain sites), because then possibly you can uninstall it, and reinstall a fresh copy from one of the other PC's.

In a business environment where there should be no local files (because everything worthwhile keeping is at a file server, where it is regularly backed up) I wouldn't spend too much time on the problem, but simple ask the system manager or IT department to reinstall Windows and the applications. That should be routine for them.

Kees

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thanks
May 2, 2005 7:30AM PDT

thanks for the reply. will try this. Just a 4 person company on business broadband. No main backup (do it at home) no exchange server ....

Thanks again.

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What worked:
May 2, 2005 7:38AM PDT

Based on your suggestion, I opened IE 6 and hit VIEW>ENCODING. I just switched to a different one and it changed the problem with the "?" and other symbols in my browser and on certain web pages.

Now if I can figure out whay I still have those weird symbols in Outlook I'd be jazzed.

Thanks for pointing me tot he right area.