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Old 21st February 2004 | 01:18
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Dagger Dirk
 
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From: Bechuanaland
Give that man the banana

It was system mechanic 4 (the fix is in the upgrade to ver 4.0g)
Slight amendments to clarify the instructions above:

1) Start Button.
2) Run type regedit.
3) Goto HKEY Local Machine.
4) Goto Software.
5) Goto Current Version.
i.e. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts)

6) See if you have a Fonts folder. If not then we will create a new key.
7) Right Click on "Current Version" on the same folder as (step5).
8) Select New Key. Call it fonts
9) Load all the fonts back in the control panel Fonts folder (from another machine).
just copy across using a couple of Explorer windows (the screen fonts loaded in memory will not
allow you to install over themselves - but that doesn't seem to matter
10) Reboot


Note: if your screen fonts are so scrambled that you cannot move around in windows, do it
alongside another good machine (for ease of Sanskrit nav) or you may need to connect to another machine (or off a server) copy the fonts into the windows/fonts directory

Obviously IOLO didn't carry out the most basic alpha testing of their new version.
That would have upset quite a few people around the globe.

Thanks for your able assistance in this. Let's hear it for the FONZ.

For the record I did Google it but for
some terminological reason failed to find the light of day
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