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    Ok on this page, facebook and some other sites, some text, fonts and words show up as squares? I may have a bad settings either in win98 or the explorer and I'm seeking ideas that may resolve this display problem. I have just reloaded the 98 and that gave me a problem with my office 2000 and outlook which I am trying to reload.
    If you have any suggestion, I'll review them. Also if there are test sites for the explorer, i.e. flash player, colors, or other test that my resolve or identify problems with either IE6 or Win98 SE. Note I do not have financial resourses to buy prouducts I.E. Registry Fixes or checkers! Thank you
     
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    Sounds like a font/language issue, I have an antique 98 system with IE6 installed if you would like to give me a specific example URL?
     
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    I'm looking at it! this "reply "!

    I see a square above the Italic (I) and "ordered list "! also
    there are squares above "Reply to Thread" and "Internet Explorer" bars And
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    at the bottom, above the word "You may... "
     
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    Dave,

    Your view is obviously different from mine, please give me a specific address to look at and if you know how email a snapshot to chuckawa AT blueyonder.co.uk (post your response here that email address is rarely looked at).
     
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    I am not sure this is what you want? ...This is a copy/paste of the first few lines of View/ Source
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd ">
    <html xmlns= "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir= "ltr" lang= "en ">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv= "Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
    <meta name= "generator" content= "vBulletin 3.8.0" />

    <meta name= "keywords" content= "microsoft windows support, windows vista, windows xp, networking, security, technical support, configuration, increasing performance, crashes, windows problems, troubleshooting, network, free, cleanup, help, hijackthis, spyware removal" />
    <meta name= "description" content= "Windows BBS: Get FREE support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, XP and other Microsoft products!" />
    ______________________________
    I got that when I hit Reply! David M
     
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    Can you take a snapshot (prtsc), paste into paint and email it to me?
     
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    Were you able to read the Text? Do you have any suggestions? The computer still is acking flakey! This Reply site seems readable now but other sites go in and out with text looking like squares and rectangles or pixelated! I'm just about at am end and planning to reload my win98 SE. But I am not sure that will fix any problems! I went to "http://www.macecraft.com/downloads/" looking to find something to run that would fix/ repair or replace any "bad" DLL files and registry problems which I or something else caused but the downdoad did not work...It said I was missing a dll file and could not run?
    Thanks for any help! David M. Barker
     
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    Sorry Dave,

    I really need to see what you are seeing (page sources are no good).

    1) Open a problem site.
    2) Hit the PrtSc (perhaps Print Scrn or some other simiar named) key.
    3) Open Paint
    4) Select Edit->Paste
    5) Save the file and email me the image.

    Again I'll ask you to also post here to let me know you've sent the email.
     
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    I hope this will be of help. To you and me!I do not see any way to attach here so I will attempt to use your email address as before. please let me know if and when you get Them! Dave
     
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    Hi Dave,

    I've got them, I'll put them online (after editing out you email addy) and post addresses shortly for others to have a look.

    Example Picture 1

    Example Picture 2
     
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    It still looks like a font issue to me, have you or anything else been messing with your font settings or folder?
     
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    I can say that my office has been uninstalled and I had hoped to reinstall after my win98 has been "cleared" of problems! Is what is seen an installation problem or a DLL? Dave
     
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    Neither, a font problem (.ttf or .fon). Reinstalling office now may resolve it as office comes with quite a number of fonts.
     
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    please note page 3 just sent with an error. Do you believe I need to reinstall 98? I am also sending the message I got when I tried to install office disk one (run*.bmp) I froze up and resending Dave
     
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    Hi Dave,

    No need to email graphic dumps of the error messages, just post them here.

    For others: Office 2000 Installer Error...
    Perhaps we should rewind a bit, what were you doing that initially caused all these problems?
     
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    I do not know? I have copied both cd in folders install1 and 2 and I tried the install run command which showed the error above. There are files I got from "http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=af6c8d03-7633-45b4-ab96-795ee656f2a2&DisplayLang=en" about office erraser which seened to work the first time but after I uninstalled office and later tried to reinstall I got the error. Which is why I think something else is going on? Dave
     
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    Ok, when you reloaded 98SE did you do an over the top install or did you totally wipe/format the drive?

    Why aren't you installing Office from the CD's?

    BTW no need for more graphic dumps I've seen enough ;)
     
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    I am not sure what is going on as I sent a reply but it did not show up, so I will try again! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...03-7633-45b4-ab96-795ee656f2a2&DisplayLang=en this is the site I got an "erraser" for office (one for disk 1 and one for disk 2) they seemed to work and the install at run from the install folder seened to go ok (yet did not) so I went to add/ remove programs and uninstalled office disk 1 & 2! So all that is on my c drive are the copied files from the cd. It will not install from the folder (maybe because of a registry problem!?) any suggestions, thoughts? Dave
     
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    To answer the first question in install 98...I did it over the original setting through the cd. Why? my hope was not to wipe out any data on the c drive from My documents, etc. I did ask another person who thought this would create another directory of windows but I saw no duplication!

    Why not run install of office from cd? That is what I am now thinking, My reailer thought was, that if I install from the install folder it (the pc) would look there if another problem came up for a replacement file! I thought that any way but so far that did not work and why I was looking for help and ideas! Dave
     
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    OK First, backup your data

    Then check your HD for possible failure, Identify your drive and download the appropriate diagnostics from one of these links

    ExcelStore, Hitachi/IBM, Samsung, Seagate, Maxtor, Quantum, Western Digital

    Next I would try a reinstall of office from the CD's.

    Post back once you've done the above and let us know how you get on.
     
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