I have a very interesting problem with avast internet security 6 when i uninstall it in my laptop (Win7 SP1 Home Premium x64 English) stops displaying correctly the Traditional Chinese Fonts, and when i reinstall Avast IS the chinese fonts display correctly in chrome tabs and file names. this problems appear again if i uninstall avast is 6.
I must say it doesn’t make much sense to me…
First, I’d like to see a screenshot of the problem in effect (especially on the “file names”), second I’d like to know what is set in Control Panel / Region and Language / Administrative / Language for non-Unicode programs. But I somehow expect it not to reveal anything helpful.
If you navigate to the Fonts folder (either via Control Panel or by going into C:\Windows\Fonts), go to “Font settings” and uncheck the option “Hide fonts based on language settings” (if checked) - does it help?
I don’t think it does (also because this is the first time I hear something like that, and there are quite a few hits on that problem on google without any apparent connection to avast), but I admit I have no idea what that particular checkbox does, I’d have to dig a bit deeper (if time permits).
But it’s strange, even if avast! was actually “fixing” the problem that was already there, it wouldn’t be completely right…
after uninstalling and having the same issue i think i found that avast some how seems to corrupt fntcache.dat i deleted after uninstalling avast and after a reboot windows 7 it regenerates the file and the Chinese font error seems to be gone, after few reboots i see still correctly the fonts
;D or maybe i have the new DUQU rootkit and is messing with my fonts ;D