flexy
Diamond Member
WINDOWS 7
I have a very odd issue and was not able to track this down yet. I first thought it was a browser setting isue, but is not because the problem is in ANY browser (FF, IE, Chrome)..but also in text files in Word or notepad++ in Windows.
The issue is that firstly, many special chracters like "/" or HTML tags like "<" or ">" are not displayed anymore...resulting in ANY browser not being able to display some websites right. Also, when i look at the source in the browser (no matter what browser!) all tags and some characters are missing.
Here is an example:
http://www.ndchost.com/wiki/cpanel/extended-exim-logging
Where it says
You can now watch the exim log at /var/log/exim_mainlog for additional info!
Characters are skipped and the line comes out wrong since the special chartacters like / etc. are missing.
In the browser i only see varlogeximmainlog. In IE, the entire section where that inline code is is BLANK.
EVEN WORSE:
I load an entirely "normal" textfile either with Word or with notepad++ and the text is garbled and unreadable - or i download a logfile from my linux fileserver and want to look at it on my PC...and its all screwed up!
This is how some texts look in notepad++:
There is only ONE thing i did yesterday before all this appeared, letting Win7 update and i updated a whole bunch from windows update. I am certain it has to do with it. But i am lost because its a whole bunch (20 or 30) smaller kb updates...
I also reinstalled graphics drivers just to make sure and also did a quick test with OCCT for CPU/memory. This is all fine.
It is as if something installed a "filter" making it impossible to display certain texts right...and this issue affects most of my work, on the desktop but also in the browser.
*** SOLVED ***
I had a hosed NET 3.5 installation, fonts were corrupted as well as other system files, i did a repair install now. Problem likely appeared due to a power outage a few days ago.
I have a very odd issue and was not able to track this down yet. I first thought it was a browser setting isue, but is not because the problem is in ANY browser (FF, IE, Chrome)..but also in text files in Word or notepad++ in Windows.
The issue is that firstly, many special chracters like "/" or HTML tags like "<" or ">" are not displayed anymore...resulting in ANY browser not being able to display some websites right. Also, when i look at the source in the browser (no matter what browser!) all tags and some characters are missing.
Here is an example:
http://www.ndchost.com/wiki/cpanel/extended-exim-logging
Where it says
You can now watch the exim log at /var/log/exim_mainlog for additional info!
Characters are skipped and the line comes out wrong since the special chartacters like / etc. are missing.
In the browser i only see varlogeximmainlog. In IE, the entire section where that inline code is is BLANK.
EVEN WORSE:
I load an entirely "normal" textfile either with Word or with notepad++ and the text is garbled and unreadable - or i download a logfile from my linux fileserver and want to look at it on my PC...and its all screwed up!
This is how some texts look in notepad++:
There is only ONE thing i did yesterday before all this appeared, letting Win7 update and i updated a whole bunch from windows update. I am certain it has to do with it. But i am lost because its a whole bunch (20 or 30) smaller kb updates...
I also reinstalled graphics drivers just to make sure and also did a quick test with OCCT for CPU/memory. This is all fine.
It is as if something installed a "filter" making it impossible to display certain texts right...and this issue affects most of my work, on the desktop but also in the browser.
*** SOLVED ***
I had a hosed NET 3.5 installation, fonts were corrupted as well as other system files, i did a repair install now. Problem likely appeared due to a power outage a few days ago.
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