Windows 10: Japanese Characters Appearing on PIN area of Splash Screen

Hello;I started seeing Japanese characters appear in center and upper left corner of my splash screen yesterday.Checked regional settings control panel and IME everything is set for English. These are the only places I can see where it appears. Not sure if this is something Microsoft Team has created for entertainment with their Desktop pictures.

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Switching Japanese Windows with English menus

Yes, I do mean those keys. I tried just switching to Japanese keyboard, as you suggested, but those keys didn't work. Also, the selection key is normally the spacebar in Japan but I could only get IME to work with the Tab key (for those who aren't familiar with Japanese typing: you type in Roman characters, then press a selection key and it steps you through a list of options for the word you are typing in Japanese characters). Did you get the special keys to work as they do in native Japanese mode?

It may well be that I was missing something, although I did try every option I could think of. In any event, as I said, I gave in and now have Japanese Windows running with English menus and everything seems to be working perfectly.
Thanks,

Mike

 

Getting Japanese characters to display

In Windows 10, I was able to switch between the English and Japanese simply by clicking on the ENG icon in my various Office products (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) Now, however, the icon is gone and the ability to get Japanese characters to display has vanished.
My computer says I have the Japanese IME language pack, but I can't get it to work. Has anyone else had this problem in Windows 10? Any suggestions?

 

Splash/ Lock Screen

Hi all.

I posted here some years ago with a very similar issue; the responses I received never really seemed to get at the root of the issue, and now, the issue is almost the same with a slight variation.

OK, here goes:

Some refer to it as the "splash" screen, or also, the "Lock Screen"; you know, when you first boot up the computer and it arrives at the screen where, if you want to login with your password (or PIN), you tap a key and whatever picture you have for your splash/ lock screen "fades" to a soft blur, and then the field appears for you to enter your password/ PIN.

Well, with no real rhyme or reason, something happens every once-in-a-while. There's no pattern to this: Sometimes many, many months can go by before it happens again, or, a couple of weeks; I'll do my best to describe it:

When I boot up my computer and it arrives at the splash/ lock screen, what I usually do to get to the login screen is to tap my Space bar on the keyboard (sometimes the Enter key....it really doesn't matter), and then my splash/ lock screen picture fades to a blur and then I type in my PIN, but what sometimes happens is, I tap a key at the splash/ lock screen, the picture fades to a soft blur and.......the field for the password/ PIN does not appear, the picture just stays there as a soft blur.

My system, overall, has not seized or frozen up; if I move my mouse the cursor moves on-screen. Over at the right-hand side of the screen I can see the icons for Network, Ease Of Access, and the Power Button icon. So when I'm stuck at this soft blur of the Lock Screen, I usually click on the Power Button icon, and then from Sleep/ Shut Down/ Restart, I choose Restart, and then when it reboots and comes back to the splash/ lock screen, I can then get to the passwords/ PIN field and login to my desktop.

So: Any ideas as to why this happens?

As I mentioned, there's no pattern to this; sometimes many, many months can go by before this happens again.

I've done some general searches on the 'Net on this, and yes, some people have come across a similar issue, but from some descriptions I've found, their system totally seizes up and freezes: no response from keyboard or mouse so a hard shutdown is required. At least I can use my mouse on the Power Button and do a Restart.

From my searching, some suggestions are to look for a virus or malware; I've done scans, looked in Task Manager, looked at the Processes running, and also looked on the Startup tab: nothing suspicious.

Any input for me? Suggestions or ideas? *Biggrin