I own a laptop running windows 2000. The other day I accidentally flicked the off switch with my thumb, and the computer automatically started its shut down procedure, so it shut down properly. When I turned it back on it seemed okay until I got to the login screen. This is now in bold system font (or something). When I get into windows itself, anything using Arial font (except in MS word strangely) is now italicised, so for instance, this post would be in Arial italicised. The title bar, clock etc are italicised in Arial too. I have tried fiddling with the appearance settings in control panel, but changing the font to italics does nothing. It works fine otherwise; I just find it very annoying reading everything in IE in italics.
So my question is: Does anyone know how to fix this?
I know nothing about 2000 so this is WAG territory for me but as an analog to 98/ME you may want to try (after backing up data) booting to DOS witha floppy and deleting the existing arial ttf font file and then replacing it with a copy from a known good 2000 system. If it continues to give a strange display your registery (if 2000 uses none) may be damaged and you may need to re-install 2000.
You might also try this procedure below. Although it is a font solution for a browser problem in Win 2000 it will re-install the full 2000 unicode font display set which may fix the situation if it is being caused by a damaged font file.
“Full fonts: If you have Microsoft Office 2000, you can get the Arial Unicode MS font, which is the most complete. To get it, insert the Office CD, and do a custom install. Choose Add or Remove Features. Click the (+) next to Office Tools, then International Support, then the Universal Font icon, and choose the installation option you want.”
I also don’t know anything about Windows 2000, but I have experience with deleting the wrong font in Windows 98. That font is the Tahoma font.
Do a search for Tahoma. If you only come up with Tahoma Italic, that is your problem. Go to another computer and grab the tahoma font and copy it to your fonts directory (c:\windows\font on my computer).
If tahoma is not there in Win 98, you get all kinds of strange stuff.
I dont think it’s a problem with the fonts themselves as the normal arial font is there, and as I said, it works correctly in Word. Tahoma is there (though strangely the italic version is not there.) So the problem must be in the registry. I would try kinoons suggestion but -
1 could I make the situation worse by doing this (ie make the computer not work at all)
2 scanreg doesn’t seem to work.
3 I have already rebooted a couple of times to see if that fixed it (it was the first thing I tried, theretsof) so would this still work?
when you say scanreg dosent seem to work – how does it not work? Does it run and not solve the problem, or are you not able to get it to run?
also – unless you’ve added some new hardware in the last day or so I’ve never seen scanreg hose a system. If you are feeling a little scared about restoring a old reg. you can run scanreg /fix – it will search for errors in the reg. and fix them.
Um, unless scanreg is in my older system because it has ME, 2000, and XP on it all at one time…aww shit I’ll bet Scanreg /restore isint in 2k…dont mind me, I’ll be over in the corner thinking more…
What I did was bring up the command window, got C:> and typed in scanreg. It said ‘“scanreg” is not a recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.’
Right click your desktop, select properties,click your appearance tab, select item(message box,menu,ect…)and you can change fonts on one or all of these things as you choose.
“What I did was bring up the command window, got C:> and typed in scanreg. It said ‘“scanreg”
is not a recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.’”
Maybe cause its not in the root directory. didyou search your computer to find it?
ALso, why not buy a program to maintain your computer? Then it can handle things like this.
handy, as I understand it, ‘scanreg’ is a dos command, ie it works in any directory. As for the maintanance program, its a bit late now for that isn’t it? (plus I dont see why I should shell out 30 quid on something that wouldnt necessarily solve my problem, see below)
However, I’ve managed to fix the problem by simply reinstalling Arial (downloading it from microsoft).
Windows 2000
In Windows 2000, the Emergency Repair Disk does not contain a backup of the registry. To backup the registry, use the
Windows 2000 Backup utility. The Windows 2000 Backup utility makes a backup of the registry and other system files. See
the document Q240363, How to Back Up and Restore the System State.
After making changes to the registry
After making changes to the registry, immediately verify that the results are what you expected.
If the results are not what you expected and you want to restore the registry to its previous state, restore the System State
backup.
For more information, see the article Rdisk.exe Is Not Included With Windows 2000 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at: http://support.microsoft.com/support.
:Looks like they use something called Rdisk.