Windows 2000 Displays Symbols in system areas

April 30, 2008

I have Windows 2000 SP4 and over the weekend my application screens and user

areas have all lost thier font. It now displays symbols (like in the system

information area) instead of the standard english. All of my icons are still

in english and can read them with out a problem but it is all of the other

areas that have changed. Even when booting the "Starting Windows display

that states please wait is in symbol form.

Has anyone ever seen this before? How can I correct it without formating

and reloading the drive?

May 3, 2008

Re: Windows 2000 Displays Symbols in system areas

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:02 -0700, R Brown

<RBrown@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have Windows 2000 SP4 and over the weekend my application screens and user

>areas have all lost thier font. It now displays symbols (like in the system

>information area) instead of the standard english. All of my icons are still

>in english and can read them with out a problem but it is all of the other

>areas that have changed. Even when booting the "Starting Windows display

>that states please wait is in symbol form.

>

>Has anyone ever seen this before? How can I correct it without formating

>and reloading the drive?

System file check?

RL

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