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bad fonts on desktop and windows

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thehunterman

Flightless Bird
After booting up my desktop has changed. Under all filder and files yhr
laungage has jibberish like large squares small squares. cannot read? also
goes for whenever I open afile or program, don't get american language all
types of squares??
I went back to a system restore and same thing??
wbansemer@yahoo.com
 
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Russ SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP]

Flightless Bird
Did you try changing the default language of your PC?

Windows XP: How to change the Default User UI Language
In Windows XP, you can set the UI language that the default user on the
local machine (or a domain user that doesn't have a profile) will see at
first first log on. It is also the UI language that is applied to system
services running on local machine.

• Open Regional Options in Contol Panel

• Click on the Advanced tab

• In "Default user account settings" at the bottom of the page, check the
box beside "Apply all settings to the current user account and to the
default user profile"

If that doesn't work try copying all the C:/Windows\Fonts
from another PC or a backup
Russ


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"thehunterman" <thehunterman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AE6819E1-CF0D-412C-9699-C5F381A543A7@microsoft.com...
> After booting up my desktop has changed. Under all filder and files yhr
> laungage has jibberish like large squares small squares. cannot read?
> also
> goes for whenever I open afile or program, don't get american language all
> types of squares??
> I went back to a system restore and same thing??
> wbansemer@yahoo.com
 
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thehunterman

Flightless Bird
cant do anything. everywhere I go no matter what program I can't read all
I see are all types of squares,circles down-up arrows question marks?
"thehunterman" wrote:

> After booting up my desktop has changed. Under all filder and files yhr
> laungage has jibberish like large squares small squares. cannot read? also
> goes for whenever I open afile or program, don't get american language all
> types of squares??
> I went back to a system restore and same thing??
> wbansemer@yahoo.com
 
T

thehunterman

Flightless Bird
Ok thank you ever so much...finally got it fixed thanks to you.
"thehunterman" wrote:

> After booting up my desktop has changed. Under all filder and files yhr
> laungage has jibberish like large squares small squares. cannot read? also
> goes for whenever I open afile or program, don't get american language all
> types of squares??
> I went back to a system restore and same thing??
> wbansemer@yahoo.com
 
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Elmo

Flightless Bird
thehunterman wrote:
> After booting up, my Desktop has changed. Under all folder and files the
> language has jibberish like large squares, small squares. Cannot read? Also
> goes for whenever I open a file or program, don't get American language, all
> types of squares??
> I went back to a system restore and same thing??

System Restore doesn't repair a damaged font. The system uses another
font it deems similar to the missing font, when one is no longer
available.. This could help, if you can repair the Tahoma font first.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
#249 Set Default XP Font Back to Tahoma

A quick Google search found this helpful page. There are probably others.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-fix-windows-xp-font-problems.html

--
Joe =o)
 
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Russ SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP]

Flightless Bird
Please post back what the fix was
so others may use this as a reference fix
(Was it the fonts?)
Thanks
Russ

--
Russell Grover - SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP]
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist
24hr SBS Remote Support - www.SBITS.Biz
Question or Second Opinion $25.00 - www.PersonalITConsultant.com
Free Trial Microsoft Online Services - www.Microsoft-Online-Services.com


"thehunterman" <thehunterman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Ok thank you ever so much...finally got it fixed thanks to you.
> "thehunterman" wrote:
>
>> After booting up my desktop has changed. Under all filder and files yhr
>> laungage has jibberish like large squares small squares. cannot read?
>> also
>> goes for whenever I open afile or program, don't get american language
>> all
>> types of squares??
>> I went back to a system restore and same thing??
>> wbansemer@yahoo.com
 
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thehunterman

Flightless Bird
Fixed all except: only have bad fonts on start menu at bottom left corner and
when I click on start:the top left files are in bad font and so are the ones
on right side (my pictures,my documents)

"Elmo" wrote:

> thehunterman wrote:
> > After booting up, my Desktop has changed. Under all folder and files the
> > language has jibberish like large squares, small squares. Cannot read? Also
> > goes for whenever I open a file or program, don't get American language, all
> > types of squares??
> > I went back to a system restore and same thing??
>
> System Restore doesn't repair a damaged font. The system uses another
> font it deems similar to the missing font, when one is no longer
> available.. This could help, if you can repair the Tahoma font first.
>
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
> #249 Set Default XP Font Back to Tahoma
>
> A quick Google search found this helpful page. There are probably others.
>
> http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-fix-windows-xp-font-problems.html
>
> --
> Joe =o)
> .
>
 
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Don Phillipson

Flightless Bird
"thehunterman" <thehunterman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Fixed all except: only have bad fonts on start menu at bottom left corner
and
> when I click on start:the top left files are in bad font and so are the
ones
> on right side (my pictures,my documents)

The Windows default display font is/was MARLETT. You could
try running SFC.EXE (System File Checker) on MARLETT.TTF
or possibly on all fonts in that particular folder.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
 
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