Monday, December 5, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Squares shown in places of Chinese characters
In Windows Enterprise Chinese characters in folders and other places (like the title bar in chrome) are not shown correctly. This problem does not exist in the home premier edition. A simple solution is to change the system locale to Chinese and then change back to English. Still, I wonder how MS let this slip though their quality control. I now see more evidences of the failing of MS and the rising of Apple.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Uninstallation a program in windows after registry clearner failed
Recently I swapped the hard drives between two laptops. HP's programs on one of them refused to be uninstalled in the new laptop. Manual registry removal the entries in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
helped, but it also brought some other HP programs back which I thought had been uninstalled. Next phase of using all sorts of registry cleaners did not work. So there we go - manually search for all entries with "hewlett" in the registry. Bingo! They were located in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products.
After deleting them the entries in the program list were finally gone.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
helped, but it also brought some other HP programs back which I thought had been uninstalled. Next phase of using all sorts of registry cleaners did not work. So there we go - manually search for all entries with "hewlett" in the registry. Bingo! They were located in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products.
After deleting them the entries in the program list were finally gone.
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