Ernie,
Right click on your desktop, choose Properties, go to the Appearance tab and see what fonts you can change. The font used for 'desktop icons' or 'icons' seems applicable (and it could well be that that's the same a used by Explorer). With me it's MS Sans Serif 8. Arial might be a good alternative (if that works in your applications it shouldn't be corrupted); but I don't know if desktop and explorer support True Type fonts. Anyway, things can't get much worse than they are now, and it should be easy to go back. And I hope the appearance tab still is readable, or you have a problem indeed!
When up and running again, try fixing the problem.
Hope this helps, and possibly Grif comes with still better plans.
Kees
Hi Grif: I was just reading your post about the hazards of some of the Windows driver Updates, and would like to ask a question of you.
I have posted this in Window XP forum, but so far I haven't gotten good response.
Machine: Dell Latitude D800, Win XP Pro, 1.7 ghz, 512 mb ram, 40 gb hdd.
I cleaned the files with Adaware, Spybot, Mcaffee Virus, then deleted cookies and temp. files and ran disk cleanup.
Installed Sp2 from Microsoft Update site.
Smooth install, with no problems.
The machine worked perfectly until I rebooted.
Now all of the text in windows is jibberish, *&^&^%$#&#&*)_)(*, etc. I can't read anything on the destop icons, or in explorer.
All of my software programs work fine. They appear normally on the screen.
I have since un-installed SP2, but the problem persists.
Any idea what caused this?
Spyware or the update, or both?
Any suggestions how to fix this?
This is the first time I've seen this particular problem.
Thanks for any help.
Ernie

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