Windows 7 Home Premium – Unable to View Chinese Characters Properly

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Is there a proper and permanent fix that will restore the display of Chinese Characters on a Windows 7 Home Premium Laptop computer?
This problem has been occurring frequently now and a simple reboot no longer does the trick. The square boxes viewed on many applications and websites has been constantly bothering me and I wish to fix it asap.
I have done a lot of research on it but have not been successful. Many responses were to install the language packs for Windows 7 Ultimate Users which apparently is not my case or to configure the "Region and Language" settings of the Control Panel, changing the system locale.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
All would be appreciated!

Best Answer

There are many reasons for this kind of a problem, so here are some ideas :

  1. Go back to a restore point before the problem occurred.
  2. Boot in Safe mode. If the problem disappears then some installed product is causing the problem.
  3. If the problem is font cache corruption, delete the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\FNTCACHE.DAT and reboot.
  4. Reinitialize fonts via Control Panel => Fonts, click on Font Settings, unchceck Hide fonts based on language setting, then click on Restore Default Font Settings.

Please let me know the results of these manipulations. I advise creating a system restore point before starting, just in case.

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