Re: Arial Font

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:04:23 -0700

Daniel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Something wierd happend to my computer. I'm not 100% sure
> what happend. I started getting all kinds of strange
> errors, about how certain dlls were not valid windows
> images. My Norton Anti Virus just STOPED WORKING, and all
> of the text in outlook, ans IE were just GONE. Blank
> windows.
>
> I managed to get the latest windows updates and that
> seemed to fix the errors, I did a repair of office and
> that fixed the text. (I also re installed anti-virus and
> that is woring again)
>
> But all of the text is all ittalics. So I noticed that my
> Arial Font is dammaged. Is there a way I can download or
> reinstall that font so my screen will go back to normal?

Fix Constant Italics/Font Problem - When a rogue program decides to
install its own version of system fonts, it may replace the original
version of the font file with a shortcut in the font folder. Once this
program is uninstalled, the shortcut may now point to a font file that
no longer exists. Windows XP in turn reacts by turning all unspecified
fonts into italics upon next reboot.The simple way to fix this is to
delete all shortcuts in the font folder and replace them with the
actual font file. By going to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsof
\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts], you can also double check the path of
each font and look for any suspicious paths.
 
Try that and see if this fixes things.

Malke 

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