Does anyone please have any ideas of settings I can change or other things I can try to resolve this?? Thank you so much!!
google.com opens in German and searches in the UKI!
#1
Posted 18 December 2009 - 09:09 PM
Does anyone please have any ideas of settings I can change or other things I can try to resolve this?? Thank you so much!!
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#2
Posted 19 December 2009 - 03:30 PM
Are you using IE7 or IE8 for you browser? If so, try resetting to default state.
To use the Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature from Control Panel, follow these steps:
1. Exit all programs, including Internet Explorer (if it is running).
2. If you use Windows XP, click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box, and then press ENTER:
inetcpl.cpl
If you use Windows Vista, click Start
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Start button
. Type the following command in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER:
inetcpl.cpl
The Internet Options dialog box appears.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Under Reset Internet Explorer settings, click Reset. Then click Reset again.
5. When Internet Explorer finishes resetting the settings, click Close in the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box.
6. Start Internet Explorer again.
Above from this MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737
Rich
Die with memories, not dreams. – Unknown
#3
Posted 20 December 2009 - 12:54 PM
#4
Posted 20 December 2009 - 05:26 PM
Please download and run MBAM (Malware Bytes Anti Malware). Let it update then run the quick scan. Fix anything it finds and try IE again.
If anything is found, I would recommend you go to the Spyware / Malware / Virus Removal forum >, read the info there and follow the posted directions. Once you receive a clean bill of health, come back here if you have any additional questions or concerns or it turns out not to be a malware problem.
Please be patient as that is a very busy area. If you do not receive a response in 3 days, post a message here: http://forums.whatth...ays_t78698.html
Rich
Die with memories, not dreams. – Unknown
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Posted 22 December 2009 - 11:27 AM
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Posted 22 December 2009 - 11:33 AM
#7
Posted 22 December 2009 - 12:46 PM
Here are some extra steps that may do the trick for you.....
I am assuming that you want the Google pages to display in the English language rather than German language and that you want to receive pages from the web rather than just the UK.....if this is NOT the case let me know and I will amend the suggestions accordingly.
It might be wise to consider printing out these notes and working through the steps methodically checking off each as you finish it.
1 Close down your machine and shut it off (not sleep or hibernate or standby) wait 30 seconds with a blank black screen and then restart it
2 Wait 5 minutes (by the clock, do not try and estimate the time!)
3 Close down any programs that may have opened or any windows that are open so you are back at your desktop
4 Click on Start>Control Panel>Internet Options. Set your home page to www.google.com and click on OK
5 X out, so you are back at your desktop.
6 Open Internet Explorer and in the address bar (not the Google search bar) type
http://www.igoogle.com
7 Click OK and this should take you to the igoogle home page (don't worry if its in German, we will fix that in a minute)
8 Click on Preferences or Sucheinstellungen
9 If the white box with a down arrow at the right says Deutsch then scroll down and set to Englisch
10 next put a dot in the first radio button....Nach Webseiten in beliebiger Sprache suchen (Empfohlen).
11 Next look at the list of languages, make sure there is a dot against Englisch only and no other languages are marked
12 Click on Save preferences which is in the box at the bottom right... , it may be labelled Einstellungen speichem
13 next close down your browser completely (Internet Explorer.) and now wait 20 seconds
14 Open Internet Explorer again and you should now find the Google pages are in English..... when you search you will need to put a dot in the radio button labelled search the web.
Good luck and remember if you don't follow each step exactly as set out ....it definitely won't work!
Happy Christmas and good searching!
Regards
paws
#8
Posted 22 December 2009 - 07:42 PM
OK, I printed your instructions and followed each step exactly as you outlined. I got to step 7 and typed http://www.igoogle.com in the IE address bar. That's as far as I could get because several things happened...
First, the iGoogle page opened looking very strange (I've attached a picture). It looks like a split screen with the top on the bottom and the bottom on the top. Second, I searched everywhere on this page for the "preferences" link noted in your step 8, but cannot find it anywhere (the page displays in its entirety, no scrolling up or down). Third, the status in the lower left corner says there is an error on the page, which makes sense, given the display, but I don't know how to fix the error. Next, I also noticed that the URL in the address bar changed from what I typed in (above) to http://www.google.com/ig, is that right? So I went back to the Google home page (www.google.com).
The Google home page (www.google.com) does display correctly in English, but still contains the link to go to Google Deutschland, and the searches still search in the UK. (picture attached).
From the Google home page (www.google.com) I clicked the link to sign in, but was directed to a site that tells me: "The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority." and"The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address."
I'm still afraid to proceed anyway, so I just came back here to post all that's happened. Thank you for taking the time to help; any ideas how I might proceed? Thanks!
#9
Posted 22 December 2009 - 08:03 PM
Rich
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