Fonts all messed up

[halfpower]

About a month ago a friend of mine ran the latest windows update. He then ran some sort of registry cleaner or something. I recall him using the phrase 'registry cleaner' and 'system mechanic.' When he rebooted all his fonts looked like wingdings. They were completely unreadable. Fonts rendered as they should in HTML pages, but the fonts on, say, application buttons and the Windows start menu (and start button) still looked like wingdings. He went into the control panel and successfully changed the font setting to Dutch. This made some of the fonts, such as the writing directly underneath desktop icons, somewhat readable. Other system fonts, however, remained unreadable.

Is there an easy solution for this? Do you know what the problem is?

Thanks for any help

halfpower

 

[BlueWeasel]

Have you tried repairing the Font folder using TweakUI?

 

[imported_Tick]

Or, if that doesn't work, try using the windows cd and having it repair the font folder.

 

[InlineFive]

I would have him restore the registry keys. They don't hurt the computer and it many turn out that more things are broken in the future after he lost the backups.

 

[Smilin]

99% chance this will be fixed by simply using your last System Restore point.

 

[halfpower]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Have you tried repairing the Font folder using TweakUI?

No. I'm quite sure it is not installed.

 

[halfpower]

Thanks for all the tips. Unfortuneately I don't know how to repair the font folders, restore registry keys (I'm not sure if they are backed up anywhere), nor what the "last System Restore point" is.

 

[Smilin]

Hit Start, Select "Help and Support"

Under the "Pick a task" section you'll see an option to "Undo changes to your computer with system restore".

Follow instructions from there, and choose a restore point prior to your trouble. Among other things this will rollback your registry to an earlier copy.

 

[halfpower]

Undoing the changes with the system restore did the trick. Thank you for the help. My friend is very grateful.