Re: Deleting 'invalid' font registry keys has messed up fonts

Have you tried reinstalling all the fonts? That failing:

How to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292175

John

Usmanatron wrote:

Hi there,
I was cleaning up the registry on my computer, with a brand new tool! The program found loads of invalid font strings. I decided to go through them and delete them if they didn't seem important.

However, I managed to press 'delete all' accidentally, which resulted in all of them being wiped (painfully, it didn't ask for confirmation).
You would think this would not be a problem, but its really made a mess of my fonts in many of my programs.

All of the fonts have changed into a much larger bold font which consequently comes off the screen.

To add insult to injury, the program did not make any backups, and in fact has no provision for backing up (thats the last time Im using that!)

I have tried as many things as I can think of. I have used the appearances tab in display to change all of the message boxes, but this has not worked. I have tried reinstalling the offending software, but that has not worked either. In fact, the installer had the 'fat font' problem too. This makes me believe that there is some system-wide registry entry(s) that controls fonts.

Does anyone know if what i assume is true? If so, what is the best way to fix it? I'll try anything, because this font is really getting on my nerves. What I did find (before removing them all) was that most of them pointed to the Arial font. I found this string missing in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\fonts. I have since added it, but that hasn't helped unfortunately. Are there any more places like this in the registry?

Finally, is there any way I could possibly use the Windows 2000 disc to rebuild this portion of the registry? Im all up for drastic ideas, since my profile got corrupted a couple of days ago. I've nothing to lose :)

Thank you very much for reading this (I waffle on a bit!) and thanks in advance for any help you can give me

Regards

Usmanatron

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