Its all Greek to me

[HCartwright]

Help, some of my program fonts have gone bizarre, just 2 fonts seem to be affected, one being very hard to read ( e.g. aol news ) & some headlines in Greek!!!!!(e.g. media player ). I haven't deleted any system fonts as far as I know. Hope someone can help me.

[Budfred]

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First some questions. Do you have an updated copy of a virus scan and have you run it? Have you run a spyware scan, like SpyBot Search & Destroy?

Then, if those things are clear and you know how to do so, I would delete the corrupted fonts and reinstall from a clean copy. You can probably find them on the web if you don't have a clean copy handy.

Budfred

[HCartwright]

Budfred thanks for your quick reply, i have done a virus scan but dont use Spybot, do you think its neccesary? I Have found the offending fonts but if I remove them things get worse! Anybody now what are the normai Windows Fonts?

[Budfred]

The reason I suggested a spyware scan is that spyware and virii are the main things I know of that can corrupt font files. I am not sure what the standard Windows fonts are anymore, but I don't think that the 2 you mention are. I wouldn't delete them anyway unless I had a clean copy to install again right away.

Budfred

[Paul Komski]

Which applications is this happening in?

Which OS are you using?

What are your language settings?

In IE View<>Encoding; what is the setting there?

... also

Do the fonts only display wrongly but print correctly?

In Display "Effects" is "Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts" checked or unchecked?

[HCartwright]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Paul Komski
[B]Which applications is this happening in? - Crops up all over

Which OS are you using? - Win 98

What are your language settings? - EN (british)

In IE View<>Encoding; what is the setting there? Auto select off

... also

Do the fonts only display wrongly but print correctly? - No

In Display "Effects" is "Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts" checked or unchecked? -Cheked

Thanks Paul, maybe I didn't explain myself correctly in the first post, It's not corrupted fonts, its showing fonts that I deffinately have on my system, but not the right ones ( does that make sense ). If i remove the offending fonts it seems to default to something even worse like bullets

[Paul Komski]

A couple of Font Substitution articles.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/10215.html

http://www.iec.ch/support/bbyte/vol598/bb_vol598.htm

Have a read of Err Msg: Error Loading GDI.EXE (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;Q146904) (which is an error message so transient you may not see it). You could also use the instructions in it to reinstall the windows fonts. I think the extraction will overwrite any existing ones - if not, then you could delete all of them from the Windows\Fonts directory before extracting.

If this doesn't correct the problem then post back since there could be *.ini files or regsitry entries enforcing substitutions.