All fonts scrambled at startup. Help

[Abu]

I use winXP prof. I started my system today and most of
the fonts were scrambled (symbol-like charachters in
dialog boxes, menues, filenames...). Looks like fonts are
for some reason not loaded by the system. If I open
folder c;/windows/fonts it does not show any files (I
have show hidden and system files enabled). I dont
remember how I arrived to this, but I can restore fonts
in most places (but not all) if I search for *ttf
(extension for truetype font files) and then copy all of
them into c:/windows/fonts folder. Once this is done the
normal text slowly appears in menues, filenames dialog
boxes, but this does not solve the problem entirely,
because if I restart the computer, everything is
scrambled again and I have to repeat the fonts copying
procedure (I use other working computer to understand
what each (scrambled) comand means.
My recent activities just prior to this happening where:
installed some upgrades from adobe, run AdAware, run
System Mechanic

Your help/suggestions/guesses appreciated.

Please cc to my email if replying.

Regards

 

[Guest]

You are missing a certain font, which is seemingly unimportant, but is crucial to showing correctly. The computer is selecting the closest font it can find, not usually close at all. Reinstall ALL of your original fonts

 

[Guest]

I did reinstall all the fonts. Still have the scrambling
at start up. Interestingly, if I serch for font files
(using *.ttf as serach string), they are all found in the
right place (in Fonts folder), but if I open Fonts folder
directly, it is empty. If I run install fonts, I see the
icons, but again, closing and reopening gives empty
folder. The font files are somehow dont stay there...

-----Original Message-----
You are missing a certain font, which is seemingly

unimportant, but is crucial to showing correctly. The
computer is selecting the closest font it can find, not
usually close at all. Reinstall ALL of your original fonts