Not all the fonts appear in the appearance tab of Display configuration

[Vincent Bartro]

Hello all,

I want to change the appearance of my display on Windows 2000.
I'd like to use another font for, let's say, the tooltip appearance
field.
So I go to Control panel/Display/Appearance/, I choose the item
'tooltip', and try to select a font...
Surprise : I can only see 7 fonts in the list : Arial, courier new,
Microsoft sans serif, palatino linotype, Tahoma, Times New Roman,
Verdana

I have many many fonts on my PC : 228 installed fonts. How come I can
not see them?
What is so special about the ones listed above?

More surprising : a colleague can see all his fonts when he does the
same thing. He's on NT4...

Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot

 

[Austin Tovey]

Try using TweakXP to repair the fonts folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...c8-8b63-4c03-8986-d7f45a6aa1fa&DisplayLang=en

Also, have you searched the knowledge base? http://support.microsoft.com

Also check out the permissions on the font folder?

Regards

Austin Toveyu

 

[vincent bartro]

Can I use tools supported only on XP for my Windows 2000
box?

Regarding knowledge base, I did not find much in there.

Permissions are OK, as I am administrator on the box, and
I can delete or add fonts.