Hi, new member was hoping you might be able to help me with a problem I've got. I recently downloaded updated catalyst drivers for my ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card, but after I'd installed them my Windows Fonts all changed. Some were in windings, some were in a font called 'zap raygun 2.0'. I went in to the display toolbox and changed some manually, but some are still altered in areas that toolbox doesn't let you change- for instance, my 'start' button is in this zap text, and in catergory view of control panel all the descriptive texts are in windings. I've tried a system restore, but it didn't help. Anyone got a solution for me?

Did you try to roll back the drivers?
It would appear that Catalyst corrupted some shortcut associations.
These would be in the font folder.
You could run thru the folder & search for corruption:

By going to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\Fonts]
you can check the path of each font and look for any suspicious paths.

Or reinstall all your fonts from your XP CD:


Make a work folder - say C:\Tempfont
Put the CD in the drive and exit from the auto-run.


Start - Run - CMD.EXE
and in that give the letter of the CD drive (say Z: ) - so
Z:
CD i386
EXPAND *.TT_ C:\TEMPFONT
EXPAND *.FO_ C:\TEMPFONT
C:
CD \TEMPFONT
REN *.TT_ *.TTF
REN *.FO_ *.FON
EXIT


That will extract all 298 fonts to C:\TEMPFONT.


Then:


Open your registry and find the key below:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts


Highlight the key and press DELETE. Once the key has been deleted create a new key to replace it, by selecting Edit -> New -> Key and name the new key [Fonts].


Restart the computer, then re-install the fonts by opening the Control Panel, double-click on 'Fonts'. And from the File menu select 'Install New Fonts...' adding the fonts in C:\TEMPFONT.

Check the 'Copy to fonts folder' box before OK. Once you are sure you have everything you need, you can delete the work folder.


Fonts Supplied with Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm

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