Re: Strange font suddenly takes over

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From: Adrian (adrian_at_N0spam.peggmail.co.uk)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:39:59 -0000

Oh, I have all the Windows updates and service packs installed too.

Adrian

"Adrian" <adrian@N0spam.peggmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> This is weird, and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.
>
> When one of my family logged in to their account, the entire desktop had
> adopted a wingdings-like font. Icons were labelled with it, and the log in
> screen had adopted it as well, and so had the other accounts we managed to
> get into. Nothing else seems to be affected, web pages still display
> correctly for example. But it's very difficult to get around when you
can't
> make out what the words on the screen are. I eventually got into System
> Restore and fumbled my through the process. Some of the text was still
> English further down but even here the buttons were still labelled
> unintelligably.
>
> This has happened twice now so I am concerned as I have no idea what to
look
> for and I don't know when it might happen again.
>
> A full virus scan comes up with nothing, and I use system mechanic
regularly
> to remove junk files.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
>
> Adrian
> London, England
>
>

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