Missing Fonts. Anyone solve it?

[Guest]

Hello,
I've been searching various posts all over the net for a problem that has
been occurring. I have a Dell Inspirion running Win XP Home that I'm trying
fix. It has the "Fonts missing" bug. On start up all fonts in
C:\Windows\Fonts are missing, or at least do not show up in Win Explorer.
Consequently all the characters are control characters that you would see
when you open a binary file in a text editor. I can reload the fonts from a
disk that has the fonts on them copied from a working desktop running XP.
That solves the problem until I restart or reboot machine. Then anamoly
resurfaces.

I've seen others describe this problem and wanted to know if there is a fix
on this yet. I have tried system restore but only went back 2 weeks and it
didn't work. I will try going back further or a complete re-install of OS if
needed.

So, has anyone gotten any response from MS on this yet?

 

[Kelly]

Fonts Missing:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ssing&meta=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.*

A font may seem to be installed correctly but does not appear in the Fonts
folder because the Fonts key in the registry is missing or damaged.

Move the contents of the Fonts folder to an empty folder. By opening the
Fonts folder, select all the fonts, copy them, and paste them to a new
folder.

Open your registry and find the key below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

Highlight the key and press DELETE. Once the key has been deleted create a
new key to replace it, by selecting Edit -> New -> Key and name the new key
[Fonts].

Restart the computer, then re-install the fonts by opening the Control
Panel, double-click on 'Fonts'. And from the File menu select 'Install New
Fonts...' adding the fonts that were previously copied to the temporary
directory.

 

[Guest]

Hi Kelly,
Thanks for the help but unfortunately it didn't work. I think this is a
bug. The user of this lap top told me it occurred after he defragged and
completed a McAffee scan. That's when everything fontwise got lost.

Although when I look in the Fonts directory from a command prompt I can see
fonts in their. They don't show up in explorer. Which by the way is
difficult to navigate because of the fact there are not fonts. Regedit is
also affected. So to even use regedit I have to go through the process of
loading fonts (which really doesn't work because after restart they're gone)
then go into regedit and try stuff.

I'm going to try a restore from Dell disk. I've used these before in the
past and quite frankly haven't been impressed. Unless you or anyone else has
any other possible ideas?

Any Help is Much appreciated - Phillip

 

[Kelly]

Most welcome, Phillip. From here, I can only suggest doing some reading:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...fonts&meta=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.*

Norton has an article for corrupt fonts, perhaps McAfee does as well.
http://www.pchell.com/support/unreadablefonts.shtml

Good luck!

Hi Kelly,
Thanks for the help but unfortunately it didn't work. I think this is a
bug. The user of this lap top told me it occurred after he defragged and
completed a McAffee scan. That's when everything fontwise got lost.

Although when I look in the Fonts directory from a command prompt I can
see
fonts in their. They don't show up in explorer. Which by the way is
difficult to navigate because of the fact there are not fonts. Regedit is
also affected. So to even use regedit I have to go through the process of
loading fonts (which really doesn't work because after restart they're
gone)
then go into regedit and try stuff.

I'm going to try a restore from Dell disk. I've used these before in the
past and quite frankly haven't been impressed. Unless you or anyone else
has
any other possible ideas?

Any Help is Much appreciated - Phillip

Fonts Missing:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ssing&meta=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.*

A font may seem to be installed correctly but does not appear in the
Fonts
folder because the Fonts key in the registry is missing or damaged.

Move the contents of the Fonts folder to an empty folder. By opening the
Fonts folder, select all the fonts, copy them, and paste them to a new
folder.

Open your registry and find the key below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

Highlight the key and press DELETE. Once the key has been deleted create
a
new key to replace it, by selecting Edit -> New -> Key and name the new
key
[Fonts].

Restart the computer, then re-install the fonts by opening the Control
Panel, double-click on 'Fonts'. And from the File menu select 'Install
New
Fonts...' adding the fonts that were previously copied to the temporary
directory.