Chrome browser looking pretty strange

[mr__ed]

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.

[wa8yxm]

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.

[mr__ed]

Well, I needed to reinstall the XP operating system and when I downloaded Chrome. it's now working. 🙂

[AsheGuy]

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. 🙂

[AsheGuy]

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.

[mr__ed]

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]

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]

1492 wrote:
Your current profile may have become corrupted due to an update. What I would do is to force Chrome to create a new user profile. It's fairly straightforward. Follow these instructions at Create a new browser user profile.

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.

[1492]

Your current profile may have become corrupted due to an update. What I would do is to force Chrome to create a new user profile. It's fairly straightforward. Follow these instructions at Create a new browser user profile.

[mr__ed]

1492 wrote:
Chrome's program files may be corrupted. But go to Tools > More Tools > Encoding and check to make sure (UTF-8) is selected?

I would like to do tht, but it's impossible. I won't be able to find "tools" because all the writing is in the form of those little squares. Might as well be Chinese!:R

[amandasgramma]

I've had trouble with mine, too. All of a sudden it said I needed to sign in....when I tried to sign in I couldn't (apparently) remember the correct password. When I said I couldn't remember it, it asked for my email address. BUT, it wouldn't take my email address....said I had to use a separate one and THEN asked what month and year I signed up for Google.....SERIOUSLY???????? I don't remember. I shut down and started again and then everything worked fine.........sheesh!

[lap527]

Some weird stuff happened today with DH's chrome. I went in and disabled one of the extensions, he had little squares or icons below his google search box. At this moment I am not sure what extension it was. He didn't have it yesterday though and he didn't know why it popped up. I guess I got lucky.

[1492]

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

[bcsdguy]

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.

[1492]

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