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Hi there,
I was cleaning up the registry on my computer, with a brand new tool!
The program found loads of invalid font strings. I decided to go through
them and delete them if they didn't seem important.
However, I managed to press 'delete all' accidentally, which resulted in all
of them being wiped (painfully, it didn't ask for confirmation).
You would think this would not be a problem, but its really made a mess of
my fonts in many of my programs.
All of the fonts have changed into a much larger bold font which
consequently comes off the screen.
To add insult to injury, the program did not make any backups, and in fact
has no provision for backing up (thats the last time Im using that!)
I have tried as many things as I can think of. I have used the appearances
tab in display to change all of the message boxes, but this has not worked.
I have tried reinstalling the offending software, but that has not worked
either. In fact, the installer had the 'fat font' problem too. This makes
me believe that there is some system-wide registry entry(s) that controls
fonts.
Does anyone know if what i assume is true? If so, what is the best way to
fix it? I'll try anything, because this font is really getting on my nerves.
What I did find (before removing them all) was that most of them pointed to
the Arial font. I found this string missing in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\fonts. I have since added it,
but that hasn't helped unfortunately. Are there any more places like this in
the registry?
Finally, is there any way I could possibly use the Windows 2000 disc to
rebuild this portion of the registry? Im all up for drastic ideas, since my
profile got corrupted a couple of days ago. I've nothing to lose
Thank you very much for reading this (I waffle on a bit!) and thanks in
advance for any help you can give me
Regards
Usmanatron
I was cleaning up the registry on my computer, with a brand new tool!
The program found loads of invalid font strings. I decided to go through
them and delete them if they didn't seem important.
However, I managed to press 'delete all' accidentally, which resulted in all
of them being wiped (painfully, it didn't ask for confirmation).
You would think this would not be a problem, but its really made a mess of
my fonts in many of my programs.
All of the fonts have changed into a much larger bold font which
consequently comes off the screen.
To add insult to injury, the program did not make any backups, and in fact
has no provision for backing up (thats the last time Im using that!)
I have tried as many things as I can think of. I have used the appearances
tab in display to change all of the message boxes, but this has not worked.
I have tried reinstalling the offending software, but that has not worked
either. In fact, the installer had the 'fat font' problem too. This makes
me believe that there is some system-wide registry entry(s) that controls
fonts.
Does anyone know if what i assume is true? If so, what is the best way to
fix it? I'll try anything, because this font is really getting on my nerves.
What I did find (before removing them all) was that most of them pointed to
the Arial font. I found this string missing in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\fonts. I have since added it,
but that hasn't helped unfortunately. Are there any more places like this in
the registry?
Finally, is there any way I could possibly use the Windows 2000 disc to
rebuild this portion of the registry? Im all up for drastic ideas, since my
profile got corrupted a couple of days ago. I've nothing to lose
Thank you very much for reading this (I waffle on a bit!) and thanks in
advance for any help you can give me
Regards
Usmanatron
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