WIN XP

arial fonts in MS Office, Adobe applications, have all changed to italics.
tried saving arial font [emailed from friend] over, still gone to italics.

help!!!
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ariafx

ariafx wrote:

> WIN XP
>
> arial fonts in MS Office, Adobe applications, have all changed to italics.
> tried saving arial font [emailed from friend] over, still gone to italics.

2 possibilities:

1. 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\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts], you
can also double check the path of each font and look for any suspicious
paths.

2. If Arial (and possibly other system fonts) will only show in italics
after installing XP SP3, it is because SP3 replaced them with a newer
version. Go into the /Windows/$NTServicePackUninstall$ folder to find the
older versions and replace them.

Malke
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