web page fonts started appearing as italics

[Guest]

I've never come across this before and hopefully it is easy to fix as its now
very annoying. The text that appears on regular sites that I visit ie Ebay
etc have changed to italic!!! I checked a number of other well known sites
where I am used to the layout and they all appear the same. I'm guessing that
some settings have changed on my computer to make all these fonts italiac.
Please help!!!!

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Open Internet Explorer. CLick on Tools, Internet Options. THen Click on
the fonts tab and chage the Web page font to Times Roman and Plain Text font
to Courier New.
Regs
Vinay.S

 

[Guest]

Hi, just checked that and they are already set to those...

 

[Guest]

Hi,
You can try doing a system restore. Click on Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools and System resotre. Select a blue bold date where
in the computer was working fine. Then finsh the process. Doing a system
resotre you will not lose any data.
If still no go, then do an IE repair by putting the winXP OS cd in the
computerthen click on start, run and type in sfc /scannow. This will take
around 15 mins to complete.
Regs,
Vinay.S

 

[Malke]

Hi, just checked that and they are already set to those...

When a rogue program decides to install its own version of system fonts,
it may replace the original version of the font file with a shortcut in
the font folder. Once this program is uninstalled, the shortcut may
now point to a font file that no longer exists. Windows XP in turn
reacts by turning all unspecified fonts into italics upon next
reboot.The simple way to fix this is to delete all shortcuts in the
font folder and replace them with the actual font file. By going to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts],
you can also double check the path of each font and look for any
suspicious paths.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Open Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet Options, select accessibility. Make
sure style sheets isnt selected.