confused(as usual)

originator

how the frig do I get out of this american stuff? had to use google chrome and it came up with new york etc (am very computer illterate which doesn' help)

neilwoods

Your confused, just think how we all feel when we read this post and wonder what the heck it is all about.

originator

Blimey Neil, I'm just used to a british browser and don't understand why it's all gone transatlantic(not sure if browser is the right term either to be honest)

debitcardmayhem

originator wrote: »

Blimey Neil, I'm just used to a british browser and don't understand why it's all gone transatlantic(not sure if browser is the right term either to be honest)

Merde, tous les rosbifs sont la meme,British ca, Anglais ceci qu'estque c'est la probleme? Basically I doubt anyone could understand what your question is about

neilwoods

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Merde, tous les rosbifs sont la meme,British ca, Anglais ceci qu'estque c'est la probleme? Basically I doubt anyone could understand what your question is about

Was starting to think it was just me who did not know what this post was about. To be honest i still don't

Chickabiddybex

What exactly is the problem you're having? What is American? What were you trying to do?

originator

Maybe I am asking such a basic question that computer technicians don't believe i can be so thick? I am old,that's my excuse.Why, when I went into google chrome for the first time ever, did the screen come up showing New York weather as opposed to London England and all my AOL stuff show American news etc as opposed to the normal English? I remain curious and don't know how to change it.

Spank

No you weren't asking the question in the first place. Anyway now you have we can begin to help.
For some reason you PC thinks it 3000 miles away from you actual location. My first though is that your running through a US proxy, are you?

esuhl

Are you looking at aol.com instead of aol.co.uk...?

And if you look at the settings in Chrome, is the browser set to "English (United Kingdom)" and not "English (United States)"?

originator

Thank you,that's what it was,the settings in chrome were on english(united states) and my AOL was also not set to UK.Sorry if I annoyed anyone:)

Heinz

Perhaps the OP is referring to the recent problem I have found when typing on these forums - my UK keyboard (yes, it's definitely set to that in Windows) now returns the American character set. It still works perfectly (the UK character set) in Word.

I was trying to type the UK pound sign this morning (Shift 3) and it produced # instead of £ (I has to use Num Lock, Alt 156 to produce the £ symbol).

Anyone any idea why this is happening?