Re: possible to upgrade missing/corrupted font files via windowsupdate?

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From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:34:33 -0500

"TR" <tr@anonymous.biz> wrote in message
news:uklKOUIDFHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I have an HP OEM Windows XP Pro O/S Image Recovery CD from HP that came with
> an e-PC computer I bought from HP. I need to recover the Arial fonts and
> the Courier New fonts, but according to HP tech support, the recovery CD
> provides no way for me to recover individual O/S files. The only option, I
> was told, was to restore a pristine system image in its entirety, losing
> everything I've changed on the PC since then. This is so absurd that I find
> it hard to believe! As the owner of a legit (albeit OEM) Windows XP Pro
> license, is there any way for me to restore individual default fonts via
> WindowsUpdate?

No. Windows Update is for distributing patches not for arbitrary
repairing.

On a real XP CD you can find Arial fonts by searching with the filename
fragment arial and Courier fonts by searching with cour
Does your Restore CD not allow that? What is on it?
If it is .cab files you could expand them and see if what you need
is in one. Etc.

Do you have any space on your harddrive for another partition?
Or could you install another drive? Perhaps you could reinstall
your OEM system there, then copy whatever you need from it
or at least back up your current system somewhere else
and later restore files from it. Etc.

BTW this is off-topic for this newsgroup. You probably would
get more informed answers on an HP support forum.

> Thanks
> TR
>
>

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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