Windows Fonts disappearing

[dre]

I recently had this problem with my fonts disappearing. Here is a fix for that. Found it interesting to post, or maybe some of you had similar problems. The fonts that were affected are the following:


Tahoma
Courier New
Verdana
Arial
Arial Narrow
Arial Bold
Lucida Console
Trebuched MS
Times New Roman
Marlett

(note: this list may or may not be entirely complete)

The reason your fonts get bold/italic is that your normal versions of these fonts has been corrupted in (well, deleted from) the registry and Windows automatically falls back to the closest in the same family, if any, and therefore your text goes bold or italic - since these weren't effected.

To fix this, you will have to either restore your Windows to a prior state before this incident occurred, or manually restore your register.

To restore your register you can do the following:
Note: editing the registry is highly risky and may lead to a corrupt/non-functional system. Do this at your own risk.

1. Click "Start" and then "Run"
2. Type regedit.exe and press Run/OK
3. First of all, backup your current registry by going to File -> Export and save it to a safe place.
4. Navigate through the folder tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wi… NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
5. Here, you'll need to add a string variable for each font in the list above with the correct font-file in your C:\Windows\Fonts folder. If the variable already exists, check that the filename is correct. An example is the following (in string name -> value):

Tahoma (TrueType) -> tahoma.ttf
Courier New (TrueType) -> cour.ttf
Verdana (TrueType) -> verdana.ttf
Arial (TrueType) -> arial.ttf
Arial Narrow (TrueType) -> arialn.ttf
Arial Bold (TrueType) -> arialbd.ttf
Lucida Console (TrueType) -> lucon.ttf
Trebuched MS (TrueType) -> trebuc.ttf
Times New Roman (TrueType) -> times.ttf
Marlett (TrueType) -> marlett.ttf

6. Exit the register editor and reboot your computer to be sure that the changes has been made. You should now have your normal fonts back.

Hope this will help with any future issues of this sort, or related to this for somebody here.

[Jojoyee]

Originally Posted by dre

The reason your fonts get bold/italic is that your normal versions of these fonts has been corrupted in (well, deleted from) the registry and Windows automatically falls back to the closest in the same family, if any, and therefore your text goes bold or italic - since these weren't effected.

Good post! I just experienced it a few days ago in the XP system on a PC. The fonts in TSA articles turned italics. In my case, the registry was probably not corrupted as I tried to restore the system to an earlier point but it didn't help.

At the end I fixed it without doing anything to the registry, but in this way.

I copied all the fonts from the Windows 7 RTM system font folder (e.g. D:\Windows\Fonts) over to the Windows XP system font folder (e.g. C:\WINDOWS\fonts), then reboot the PC from XP and all regular fonts are back to normal on all TSA article pages.

[dre]

Originally Posted by Jojoyee

Good post! I just experienced it a few days ago in the XP system on a PC. The fonts in TSA articles turned italics. In my case, the registry was probably not corrupted as I tried to restore the system to an earlier point but it didn't help.

At the end I fixed it without doing anything to the registry, but in this way.

I copied all the fonts from the Windows 7 RTM system font folder (e.g. D:\Windows\Fonts) over to the Windows XP system font folder (e.g. C:\WINDOWS\fonts), then reboot the PC from XP and all regular fonts are back to normal on all TSA article pages.

That is also a possibility to get it fixed again like you explained. Quick and easy in your case. Annoying problem to have