A curious thing is taking place in my Chrome browser, which is rendering it unusable. The address bar, as well as any dropdown menu, are loaded with little square`characters in place of letters and words. These are`hollow squares, BTW. I've tried re-installing Chrome, but to no effect. I don't recall how the problem started or what I did, if anything.I like the browser and would like to use it but all these strange characters make it impossible. Any ideas what the bug could be?BTW, I'm running Win XP.

Seems like every time we get an auto update different things start showing up these days. The latest ADOBE FLASH 18.0.0.203 doesn't like my FIREFOX version 39.0 does strange things when it opens up videos and crashes. Seems to work OK on Internet Explorer and Chrome. I hate the Internet Explorer as it uses all kinds of memory. Been running FIREFOX for several years now.So now I have to use CHROME on my FACEBOOK program and FIREFOX on all the others. I like the way FIREFOX does all of the TABS when you first start up... CHROME sort of has the same thing but it works different - something new to learnWIN 10 is dropping the Internet Explorer for a new browser called EDGE. So here we all go again trying to make everything work together all over again... Hope you find your new bugs...Roy Ken

mr. ed wrote:A curious thing is taking place in my Chrome browser, which is rendering it unusable. The address bar, as well as any dropdown menu, are loaded with little square`characters in place of letters and words. These are`hollow squares, BTW. I've tried re-installing Chrome, but to no effect. I don't recall how the problem started or what I did, if anything.I like the browser and would like to use it but all these strange characters make it impossible. Any ideas what the bug could be?BTW, I'm running Win XP.X2 :(:(

Chrome's program files may be corrupted. But go to Tools > More Tools > Encoding and check to make sure (UTF-8) is selected?

I use chrome on my chromebook with no problems. :) I don't even use microshaft anymore although I still have a desktop. Chrome is so fast easy and does everything I need to do with no worry about virus.

There is no OS connected to the NET that is immune from malware or hacking.

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AsheGuy
Explorer
Jul 25, 2015
mr. ed wrote:
Is there another way to open windows explorer without having to hit 2 keys? I have use of only one hand at this time and can't span the keyboard enough to hit both the windows and E keys at the same time. Thanks again.

If using Win 7 or 8.1 in Win 7 mode, right click on start button and then click on Explore or Open File Explorer.
mr__ed
Explorer
Jul 27, 2015
AsheGuy wrote:
mr. ed wrote:
Is there another way to open windows explorer without having to hit 2 keys? I have use of only one hand at this time and can't span the keyboard enough to hit both the windows and E keys at the same time. Thanks again.

If using Win 7 or 8.1 in Win 7 mode, right click on start button and then click on Explore or Open File Explorer.

I'm running XP.
AsheGuy
Explorer
Jul 28, 2015
mr. ed wrote:
I'm running XP.
Well, it is a little more complicated to do it with one hand in XP:

To open Windows Explorer, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
AsheGuy
Explorer
Jul 28, 2015
I have always been a big user of Windows Explorer, so I always put an icon for it on the Taskbar so I can get to it with one click. Just find the explorer.exe file (I think it is in the Windows folder for XP), create a shortcut to it on your desktop and drag it to the Taskbar. On my systems, I always make it the first icon to the right of the Start Button.

Well, on my Windows 7 and 8 systems it is the 2nd icon to right of Start button. The first icon to the right is my Show Desktop icon. :)
mr__ed
Explorer
Aug 04, 2015
Well, I needed to reinstall the XP operating system and when I downloaded Chrome. it's now working. :)
wa8yxm
Explorer III
Aug 05, 2015
Sounds like a font file issue.. For some reason your browser is choosing to display a font that does not exist or that only has a few characters.

How to fix it: Sorry no clue I only recently started using Chrome (But that symptom is common in many programs) and have no idea how to fix that.. IF you can find a font setting,m Try Ariel or Times-Roman.

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