Menu/Icon/File text showing as symbols

[Guest]

All the fonts on the screen and in 90% of the menus are gibberish. The text
within a program seems ok but not the menu or icon text. I cannot figure out
what is missing here. In normal mode the text around icons, menus and file
options just aren't readable. Safe mode brings up the text around the icons
but menu and file options are gibberish/symbols. I'm afraid to uninstall the
video card (NVIDIA) for fear of losing even the display. Help!

 

[Nightowl]

All the fonts on the screen and in 90% of the menus are gibberish. The text
within a program seems ok but not the menu or icon text. I cannot figure out
what is missing here. In normal mode the text around icons, menus and file
options just aren't readable. Safe mode brings up the text around the icons
but menu and file options are gibberish/symbols. I'm afraid to uninstall the
video card (NVIDIA) for fear of losing even the display. Help!

Hi home in Georgia

Check that you have the Tahoma font installed in \Windows\fonts. It may
be missing. If it *is* there, try running this edit from MVP Kelly's
site:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 249. Set Default XP Font Back to Tahoma

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get on

 

[Guest]

when I open the Fonts folder in Windows it appears empty although I can see
it from a networked computer. I tried running the tweak below but no change.

 

[Guest]

Fonts file was empty so I copied all fonts from a networked computer in Safe
Mode. Screen looked fine. Rebooted back to normal and the fonts file is
empty again. Copied fonts again and now have error that says "\desktop.ini
is either invalid or damaged."

 

[ernie]

Desktop.ini is a hidden text file which in the Fonts folder reads:
---------
[.ShellClassInfo]
UICLSID={BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}

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You could open a new text file in Notepad and paste in the info between the
dotted lines then "Save as" Desktop.ini in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder. You
may get a message asking to overwrite the existing file.

HTH,
ern.