Font change with SP2...how to undo?

[Gary R.]

I downloaded sp2 and upgraded both a pro and home version with no problems;
however, there is a noticeable font change in the messages (plain text, both
machines) when you read them in Outlook Express. Perhaps this is better for
an OE group, but it was done by SP2 so thought I'd try here first.

Here's the before and after, from two different machines, one still with sp1
and one with sp 2:

http://www.pbase.com/image/32795731/original

The odd thing, is that as I type this, it looks like the normal, old font.
But looking at the messages in either the preview pane or opened, the ugly,
crowded new font shows. Any ideas why the inconsistency, what font is being
used and if I can change it or copy it from an SP1 machine to get my normal
OE look back? I assume that when I read this message from OE it will show
the ugly new font instead of what I'm seeing now.

I realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this crowded new
look can't be accomplishing anything worthwhile. A wild guess at the fonts
looks like the old style is maybe Times New Roman, and now it's changed to
Arial, but that's only a guess...how can I change it back?

Gary

 

[Gary R.]

I fixed this to some extent by going into Options...Read...Fonts and
switching the proportional font to Times New Roman, which looks a heckuva
lot better, but still don't understand why the SP1 machine has the same
default Arial medium specified yet looks so different than SP2 with Arial
medium.

Maybe it wasn't working right before, and they fixed it, except now that
it's fixed, it shows how bad it would have looked if it was working right
before...8^)

Gary