Guest xp-pro Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Xp pro (SP-3 and all current updates) I've noticed an odd bug in my laptop. Wordpad displays blank boxes forfilename text in dialog boxes. Someone gave me a fi earlier but I lost it. What was that fix?
Guest Elmo Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Re: font failures in wordpad save dialog xp-pro wrote: > Xp pro (SP-3 and all current updates) > > I've noticed an odd bug in my laptop. Wordpad displays blank boxes > for filename text in dialog boxes. Someone gave me a fix earlier but I lost > it. What was that fix? Several dialog boxes are blank: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831430 Transparent drop-down Menu and disappearing menu text - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/transmenu.htm -- Joe =o)
Guest xp-pro Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Re: font failures in wordpad save dialog Ok, I ran the "regsvr32 jscript.dll," but on check of the regkey {f414c260-6ac0-11cf-b6d1-00aa00bbbb58} I found two of them One has value of JScript Language - /implemented categories shows duplicate (2) entires with no value set the other shows JScript Language Authoring /implemented catagories shows one entry (different character string - but also has no value set One shows ProgID as JScript The other shows PRogID as JScript Author "Elmo" <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> wrote in message news:ecaEZmcCJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > xp-pro wrote: >> Xp pro (SP-3 and all current updates) >> >> I've noticed an odd bug in my laptop. Wordpad displays blank boxes >> for filename text in dialog boxes. Someone gave me a fix earlier but I >> lost >> it. What was that fix? > > Several dialog boxes are blank: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831430 > > Transparent drop-down Menu and disappearing menu text - > http://windowsxp.mvps.org/transmenu.htm > > -- > Joe =o) >
Guest Elmo Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Re: font failures in wordpad save dialog xp-pro wrote: > Ok, I ran the "regsvr32 jscript.dll," but on check of the regkey > > {f414c260-6ac0-11cf-b6d1-00aa00bbbb58} I found two of them > > One has value of JScript Language - /implemented categories shows duplicate > (2) entires with no value set > > the other shows JScript Language Authoring /implemented catagories shows one > entry (different character string - but also has no value set > > One shows ProgID as JScript > The other shows PRogID as JScript Author > > > > "Elmo" <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> wrote in message > news:ecaEZmcCJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> xp-pro wrote: >>> Xp pro (SP-3 and all current updates) >>> >>> I've noticed an odd bug in my laptop. Wordpad displays blank boxes >>> for filename text in dialog boxes. Someone gave me a fix earlier but I >>> lost >>> it. What was that fix? >> Several dialog boxes are blank: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831430 >> >> Transparent drop-down Menu and disappearing menu text - >> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/transmenu.htm Here's something to try: Export the regkey, then delete it; register jscript.dll again and see what happens. Restore the backup if need be. -- Joe =o)
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