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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 03:24:56 +1030
From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: K95G / Win98SE all non-space text appears as rectangles
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Arthur Marsh wrote:
> After doing everything short of reinstalling Win98SE, I still have a
> problem that K95G is showing all non-space text in the status line and
> terminal windows as rectangles.
>
> Although this is *not* a K95G problem per se (it also appears with some
> of the text in MSN messenger and other programs), I wondered if anyone
> knows of a possible fix short of reinstalling everything? (I don't have
> broadband or CD images of the windows update files so it will be a
> tedious process).
>
> I've tried the free utility "font file fixer" without success and
> googling around produced few ideas.
To partially answer my own question, by copying another machine's entire
c:\windows\fonts directory to the local machine's newly created
c:\windows\newfonts directory, then bringing the machine down to MS-DOS
mode and doing
cd \windows
ren fonts oldfonts
ren newfonts fonts
and restarting, I now have K95G working again, with nearly 100
candidates for corrupt font files in the oldfonts directory.
The joys of MS-Windows...
Arthur.