RE: Windows XP font displays

From: BEM (BEM_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:35:23 -0700

Same deal here. I used Steven Gould's 'CleanUp' just to see how it worked.
It flushed a bunch of supposedly unused fonts. First time I rebooted, got
windings. Reset to earlier points, works jake. First reboot, back to the
wingdings...

I'm just smart enough to cause myself trouble, but I can follow specific
instructions. HELP!

HP media center with XP Media, all updates per wupdate current.

"Jeff" wrote:

>
>
> "Eric" wrote:
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> Same thing just happened to me after running System Mechanic 3.8 that was supposed to "CLEAN UP" my registry. I tried to restore to an earlier date but couldn't. The message was no changes to files, unable to restore, pick an earlier date. I tried three ealier dates to no avail
> .
> I then tried installing new fonts and that seemed to work until reboot, then chaos again with wingdings, etc. I tried again to reinstall fonts and found that only about 6 or so fonts remained out of 250 in my folder. Don't know where they went.
> I then look for my XP disc to do a "sfc /sacnnow" but could even find that! I will tear my house apart tomorrow to locate it as I feel this may be my only chance to see if any system file have been corrupted.
>
> If anyone has a real solution to this problem, please help. I have read every post I can find and am still in trouble!
> Thanks!
> > Here's the thing. All the letters in windows are being
> > displayed as strange symbols. If i go to the fonts folder,
> > select all, install, then go to display options and apply
> > fonts size normal everything looks normal. If i reboot
> > everything is all messed up. I think that i may have
> > inadvertantly deleted a registry key.(using macafee
> > cleaner). Can anyone help me restore my system back to
> > normal without reinstalling my OS. Thanks.
> >
>

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