Everything is in italics. How do I get all fonts back to normal ??

S

Synapse Syndrome

This is actually a problem I am having with Windows Server 2003, but I am
sure that the solution is the same as XP.

When I applied SP2 for Windows Server 2003, around this time last year,
every font turned to italics - the Start Menu, context menus, all text in
applications, Event Viewer, Device Manager, IIS Manager, all wizards and
dialogue boxes, title bars, icons text, etc. Even the nearly all the text
in websites when using IE7 or Firefox is in italics (it does not appear in
italics in the rare cases where the CSS calls for 'normal'). The only thing
that is not in italics is the Command Prompt.

I have been using it for a year thinking that this was normal. I thought it
was some really stupid change that Microsoft made for SP2.

When looking at the Appearance tab in Display Properties, all the other
themes have fonts in italics as well. I cannot find any way to get it back
to normal.

Could there be a registry key that makes this universal, system wide change
to italics?

Cheers

ss.
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

PD43 said:
http://tinyurl.com/3ynqwa
Click to expand...


Thanks - that was helpful. It looks like my Arial font is actually missing.

Can anybody give me a list of fonts from their Windows Server fonts folder
please? I have:


C:\WINDOWS\Fonts>dir
Volume in drive C is System
Volume Serial Number is CC14-5F32

Directory of C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

03/04/2003 13:00 226,748 arialbi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 207,808 ariali.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 117,028 ariblk.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 127,596 comic.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 111,476 comicbd.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 303,296 cour.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 312,920 courbd.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 236,148 courbi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 245,032 couri.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 79,744 estre.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 135,984 framd.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 152,844 framdit.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 214,936 gautami.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 155,068 georgia.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 141,032 georgiab.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 157,388 georgiai.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 159,736 georgiaz.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 136,076 impact.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 73,292 latha.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 115,068 lucon.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 323,980 l_10646.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 143,864 mangal.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 8,704 modern.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 40,500 mvboli.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 489,884 pala.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 434,004 palab.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 344,288 palabi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 430,800 palai.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 57,348 raavi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 13,312 roman.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 12,288 script.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 234,280 shruti.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 221,676 sylfaen.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 69,464 symbol.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 239,692 timesbi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 248,368 timesi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 134,108 trebuc.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 123,096 trebucbd.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 131,188 trebucbi.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 139,288 trebucit.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 148,624 tunga.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 171,792 verdana.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 137,616 verdanab.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 155,076 verdanai.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 154,800 verdanaz.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 118,752 webdings.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 81,000 wingding.ttf
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_czec.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_engl.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_fren.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_germ.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_ital.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_span.fon
03/04/2003 13:00 18,880 wst_swed.fon
54 File(s) 8,349,172 bytes
0 Dir(s) 656,867,328 bytes free

Cheers

ss.
 
S

solidsnake204

Yes, I think you're missing the Arial font, but I also think you're missing
the Tahoma font, which is causing the problem.

I'll upload the two fonts in a min.
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

solidsnake204 said:
Here you go, I've uploaded the Arial, Tahoma and Tahoma Bold fonts:
http://filebeam.com/6b5259f5f8b2499b5e8279208d2e53cc
Click to expand...

Thanks a lot! Everything is back to normal now, as far as I can see.

I have figured out why this has happened every time I have installed SP2,
and therefore why I thought having these italic fonts was normal.

What I did on the base image that I have used before SP2, was make write
disallow permissions on the font folder for administrator and users. This
is so that I know when an application installer attempts to write to the
fonts folder, so that I can temporarily allow writes, and then remove those
added fonts.

I like to keep the server ultra-neat and clean. With that level of
attention to detail I find that they keep rock-steady for years.

Whereas an application installer will stop when it cannot write to the fonts
folder (I do not think I have actually installed anything that tries to add
fonts), the SP2 Windows Update installer obviously does not.

SP2 must have had some updated fonts included. The installer must have
deleted the old ones, without being able to add the replacements.

Could somebody please send me a directory list of the fonts in SP2, so that
I can make sure I have all of the ones that I need (being reasonably sure
there are no extra ones from applications)? The file dates should tell me
which ones are the ones that have been updated for SP2.

Cheers

ss.
 
S

Synapse Syndrome

Alan said:
I clicked on the link that you provided and I got redirected to a page
called "The Dumb Test" at
http://www.quizrocket.com/dumb-test...PerfSpot&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=DumbTest

Does the original poster have to take the test -- and get all the other
silent downloads -- in order to get the fonts that he needs?
Click to expand...


It worked fine for me. If there was any rubbish that came up, it would have
been blocked by the HOSTS file that I use.

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

ss.
 
R

Richard in AZ

Go to your Internet Options and check the Fonts and Accessibility buttons at
the bottom of the dialog box.
 

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