install new fonts is not showing

  • Thread starter Thread starter K.Sivakumar
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Try this. Go to C:\WINNT\fonts in Windows Explorer. Right click the fonts folder | Properties. Uncheck the Read-only checkbox if it is checked. Say OK and close Windows Explorer. Then re-open Windows Explorer and go to C:\WINNT\fonts. This time check the Read-only checkbox and close Windows Explorer. For both of these allow in all current and subfolders if you get that prompt. Now see if your install is back. This can also happen if there is a corrupted or unsupported font in the folder. In that case I would double-click each one and if one gives an error delete it.

Also make sure you have a file called desktop.ini in C:\WINNT\fonts which looks like this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
UICLSID={BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}

It must have attributes Archive(A), System(S) and Hidden(H). You check this by Start | Run | cmd | OK | cd\ <ENTER> | cd C:\WINNT\fonts <ENTER> | attrib > C:\fonts.txt <ENTER>

Then you go to the C drive root and double click fonts.txt and find desktop.ini and read the letters to the left of it. You can also look at inside it when you are in the fonts folder with the command prompt by typing notepad desktop.ini <ENTER>.

Let us know how this goes. If you still have trouble we may need to get you a good copy of the above CLSID key in the registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}
 
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