System Font

System Font

by SilentNN Aug 16, 2007 8:57AM PDT

The portions of my computer that use the font called system have turned into a 10pt bold version that results in certain undesired effects including cut off text and/or buttons as well as larger windows. (I suppose that's a runoff, sorry.) For a long while I had no idea the cause, but recently I had an epiphany and that it is probably due to someone accidentally deleting the font. If I'm correct and it's called vgasys.fon, then it is not in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be there in the first place, but I do know I don't have access to another replacement font with the .fon extension.

Did I figure out the problem correctly? If so, can someone show me where I can replace the font? If not, can someone help fix it anyways?

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A System Restore ...

by jackintucson Aug 16, 2007 9:06AM PDT

from a point prior to the font changing should return the settings.... as well as any other settings you may have changed since then. It will NOT do anything with data/application files.

and life goes on...

Jack

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But

by SilentNN Aug 16, 2007 9:18AM PDT

as I said, it was quite a while ago (several months). Since then I've put a lot of important things on the computer, and I've also forgotten when this happened, as at first I only saw it as a minor problem (larger windows only).

That, and I have don't know/ don't remember how to do a system restore....

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vgasys.fon

by PudgyOne Aug 17, 2007 4:04AM PDT

From what I read, has to do with a video driver.

More on this here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188094

If you cannot do the cure you can repair your system.

Do you have the disks that came with your computer?

If you do, insert the disk and restart your computer

press any key to boot from disk

choose install

do the agreement

choose repair and follow the instructions

after repair is complete, yuou have to get your windows updates. All the rest of your files should remain intact.

Rick

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Try ...

by Kees Bakker Aug 17, 2007 4:18AM PDT

- right clicking an empty piece of the desktop
- choose properties
- choose Lay-out (last tab but one in XP)
- click Advanced
- set the font type for the "portions of the computer" affected to non-bold (or choose any other font you like)

Kees

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To...

by SilentNN Aug 17, 2007 11:49AM PDT

Pudgyone - The file is not the problem. It was just really hard to find.

Kees Bakker - That's actually the first thing I tried. Didn't work though. That is, you mean 'Appearance' instead of 'Lay-out', correct?

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That's OK.

by Kees Bakker Aug 18, 2007 12:41AM PDT

It's "Vormgeving" in Dutch.

Kees

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That's Interesting

by SilentNN Aug 18, 2007 1:18AM PDT

As long as we understand each other, it's all good. Well except for the problem that is.

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