Re: installed updates, now can't work!

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 21:03:57 -0500

How to Change the Font, Size, and Colors of Desktop Items
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310543&Product=winxp 

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"swartell" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
 news:7b5b01c43176$e9b435a0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
|I tried being a responsible and dutiful user and just
| installed the updates for Windows XP.  Now my computer
| appears to be working fine, but it is useless!  All of the
| text on the desktop (icon and button labels, title bars,
| menus, most popups, etc.. etc. is in some bizarre font. 
| (Not any Roman alphabet, nor any Oriental one, nor Cyrillic
| - I recognize all of those.  My son tells me the font is
| Marlett; it's angles and dots and semicircles and check
| marks... and unintelligible.  Safe Mode doesn't help - it
| displays the same screwy font.  Fortunately Netscape is
| displaying English.
| This happened once before (possibly the last time I tried
| to update), but I don't recall how I got out of it.  I may
| have used System Restore.  Unfortunately, I can't figure
| out which buttons to push to get that to work.  I did find
| the note on doing it from the command line, and I will try
| that if I must, but I'm hoping for some explanation of what
| happened and why, so I can avoid it in future.
| 
| Thanks,
| Sue
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