Unreadable/unchangeable fonts

[Guest kenw]

I've found many threads which are oh-so-close to describing my problem -- but

no solutions.

 

The displayed font for dialogs, etc are a in tiny little font which in

nearly unreadable.

An example is the "Turn off computer" dialog: The font on the title bar

looks to be courier (but other dialog title bars have a different font). It

says "Turn off compu" before the text get clipped. The yellow, red, and green

icons are not squares but rectangles. The "cancel" font is in a tiny font.

 

I cannot affect any of these fonts through the Display Properties:

Appearance: Advanced tab even though the preview indicates the change.

 

I don't know if this has any bearing, but my unhappy PC has 923 hidden *.fon

files while my happy PC has *only* 129 (a complete subset of the 923).

 

Both machines are XP Home SP3

 

--

ken williams

[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: Unreadable/unchangeable fonts

 

Try microsoft typography,it is a font package,get it

at:http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WhatIsTrueType.mspx

 

"kenw" wrote:

> I've found many threads which are oh-so-close to describing my problem -- but

> no solutions.

>

> The displayed font for dialogs, etc are a in tiny little font which in

> nearly unreadable.

> An example is the "Turn off computer" dialog: The font on the title bar

> looks to be courier (but other dialog title bars have a different font). It

> says "Turn off compu" before the text get clipped. The yellow, red, and green

> icons are not squares but rectangles. The "cancel" font is in a tiny font.

>

> I cannot affect any of these fonts through the Display Properties:

> Appearance: Advanced tab even though the preview indicates the change.

>

> I don't know if this has any bearing, but my unhappy PC has 923 hidden *.fon

> files while my happy PC has *only* 129 (a complete subset of the 923).

>

> Both machines are XP Home SP3

>

> --

> ken williams

[Guest kenw]

RE: Unreadable/unchangeable fonts

 

Of course there are ttf files on the PC. But, wow, the number! Happy PC has

261 *.ttf. Unhappy PC has 2,339 *.ttf files. I'm suspecting this may be the

problem ...

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ken williams

 

 

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Try microsoft typography,it is a font package,get it

> at:http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WhatIsTrueType.mspx

>

> "kenw" wrote:

>

> > I've found many threads which are oh-so-close to describing my problem -- but

> > no solutions.

> >

> > The displayed font for dialogs, etc are a in tiny little font which in

> > nearly unreadable.

> > An example is the "Turn off computer" dialog: The font on the title bar

> > looks to be courier (but other dialog title bars have a different font). It

> > says "Turn off compu" before the text get clipped. The yellow, red, and green

> > icons are not squares but rectangles. The "cancel" font is in a tiny font.

> >

> > I cannot affect any of these fonts through the Display Properties:

> > Appearance: Advanced tab even though the preview indicates the change.

> >

> > I don't know if this has any bearing, but my unhappy PC has 923 hidden *.fon

> > files while my happy PC has *only* 129 (a complete subset of the 923).

> >

> > Both machines are XP Home SP3

> >

> > --

> > ken williams