Corrupted Menu Icons, Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

[Guest]

Somehow the system fonts that WindowsXP Home uses to display small menu icons
got corrupted. The issue is my radio checkboxes have been replaced by some
unidentifiable icons (so you can't tell if they are checked or not), my Start
Menu->All Programs (right arrow indicating more items in a group) has been
replaced by a tiny mouse icon, up/down scrollbar arrows have ben replaced by
various other icons.....

How do I restore the system menu display icons?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Somehow the system fonts that WindowsXP Home uses to display small
menu icons got corrupted. The issue is my radio checkboxes have been
replaced by some unidentifiable icons (so you can't tell if they are
checked or not), my Start Menu->All Programs (right arrow indicating
more items in a group) has been replaced by a tiny mouse icon,
up/down scrollbar arrows have ben replaced by various other icons.....

How do I restore the system menu display icons?

Did you delete the Marlett.ttf font? Read here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=134861&sd=RMVP

 

[Guest]

Did you delete the Marlett.ttf font? Read here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=134861&sd=RMVP

That sounds like it, but am running WinXP Home SP2. Does the same hold true?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

That sounds like it, but am running WinXP Home SP2. Does the same
hold true?

Yes, no difference. The marlett font was the culprit in similar
circumstances back in Windows 98, and maybe even earlier.

 

[Guest]

Yes, that did it! Thanks. The only remaining issue is that it works fine,
but the font shows up as a normal TT font in Windows Explorer. I've tried
setting it's attributes to hidden both via it's properties and using DOS's
attrib via a CMD window but it stays the same. Everything works, so I'm not
complaining any.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Yes, that did it! Thanks. The only remaining issue is that it works
fine, but the font shows up as a normal TT font in Windows Explorer.
I've tried setting it's attributes to hidden both via it's properties
and using DOS's attrib via a CMD window but it stays the same.
Everything works, so I'm not complaining any.

Great! You're welcome. Glad to hear it and glad to help.

 

[Beth]

Hi I'm looking for Ken, hoping you can help with a problem that has appeared
on my computer. I'm running XP Home and all of a sudden all my icons are all
jumbled up. All applications seem to be working, but all individual icons
both on the desktop and everywhere else in my user profile look like they are
scrambled eggs. Could you tell a dummy like me how to go about deleting the
Marlett.ttf font? Would that fix the problem?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi I'm looking for Ken, hoping you can help with a problem that has appeared
on my computer. I'm running XP Home and all of a sudden all my icons are all
jumbled up. All applications seem to be working, but all individual icons
both on the desktop and everywhere else in my user profile look like they are
scrambled eggs. Could you tell a dummy like me how to go about deleting the
Marlett.ttf font? Would that fix the problem?

No, deleting the marlett.ttf font won't fix a problem. My message
below (a very old one) was to point out that jrplosay's problem below
may have been *caused* by his accidentally deleting the marlett.ttf
font.