Unreadable/unchangeable fonts

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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

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ken williams
 
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
 
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
 
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