Solved Wondering if this came with the latest update.

Scannerman said:

Does anyone know? I just did a scheduled Windows update and after rebooting I took a look at my properties and this is what I found:

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From my own experience with these strange Chinese characters showing up, especially if it also has these empty boxes is that it's a Unicode screw up and what in this case should be digits instead gets converted to a different Unicode, so the Chinese interpretations carry no meaning in this context.

This occurs for me in Registry File type associations in which some 3rd party apps suffer from poor programing when you request that the program be the default for some file type.

Where they then erroneously screw up the file type name and make these Chinese characters show up at the bottom of the sort order of file type associations in Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT such as this case when *.webp files were assoicated with Xnview:




Some links about the problem from other websites.

Ghot said:

Mine is still the old way.

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As is mine.

Scannerman said:

I dunno.. I have fun being creative with my OEM info. I remember altering my System Info to read The Republic of Gamers on the gaming rig I built. I don't even remember how I did that now.

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I think the changes can be made in the registry. This program makes it much easier and safer for those that don't want to chance messing up the Windows registry.

Winuser said:

I think the changes can be made in the registry. This program makes it much easier and safer for those that don't want to chance messing up the Windows registry.

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I think you're right. I have a vague recollection of messing about in the registry and replacing some text. Sure I'll take a look at it. I never messed up my registry so bad that I couldn't boot back in and restore it but I've heard of such things.