As many of you know, I'm prone to the stranger kind of windows xp related problems. One arose in mid November, when I accidentally removed some system fonts. I ask you, how if I didnt remove the Tahoma font, did my system font default to MS Sans Sheriff? I dont know either. Anyway, my font was messed up, so I popped my cd in and changed around the DPI but couldnt figure it out. Today, after installing many games (heh) I got fed up with being unable to read half of the stuff on my screen, so I tried again.
I looked around for a fix, and it turned out that HKLM\Software\microsoft\windows NT\current version\FontSubstisutes\ key "MS Shell Dlg" key was set to the value of "MS Sans Sheriff" instead of "Tahoma"
....HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?! ![:lol:]()
woe is me and my computer, which never seems to want to act erratically..normally.
Read a post here by poster Geek which might explain it as you said you do a bit of gaming.
By the way I am not suggesting you installed cracked games, just showing you this thread as a bit of info. ![:)]()
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t127044.html
Ah, freakin' Steam, man. I just got an account a few weeks ago so I could play CSS with my buddy Mike. ![:lol:]()
I think its unrelated to my gaming, but it may have to do with the fact I had once installed over 107,000 fonts and removed a better part of them when it took my machine 6 minutes to boot up.
Though if anyone wants the fonts I have a torrent ![:lol:]()
Probably operator error on my part, I never thought to check if my system font was changed.
On an unrelated note, did you know the titlebar for active windows' text is in Trebuchet MS?
edit: in relation to the games I installed, they were a bunch of really old games (and a few not so old) that I found in my CD case I've been looking for. They included Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3, Quake 1, Age Of Empires 3 + Expansion, Diablo (1998 and 1996, I elected to use the former) Diablo 2 + expansion. Perhaps a few others, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g59/kens...193910/uhoh.png
More than likely there's some site with some info floating about that will detail what the default Windows installed fonts are, and possibly how to restore them.
Although you stated you removed the excessive amount of fonts, 107,000 fonts is way too many for any computer. Many sites recommend having no more than 300 or 500 of them, also many fonts look far too similar to each other to even warrant having a ton of them installed. The only "special" fonts I have are for making "special looking" CD/DVD covers.
Good thread here all about windows default fonts in xp.
Scroll down near bottom of page to read all the answers to the posters question, and the accepted solutions.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Graphi...Q_20533156.html
