Windows XP and Wingding Fonts

I just got it, Denny...thanks:)

 

pat...good luck!

April: I Don't know if this will solve your problem, but try this: Right click an empty area of your desktop and select properties, then click the appearance tab, then click the advanced button, then under "item" you can select "menu" and "icon" and change your preferred font from there, then click apply and OK. If it's just a mis-setting then this should fix the problem.

Carrie: I purchased a Dimension 4550 in January of 2003, and it shipped with a purple CD Rom labeled: "Operating System, Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Professional Including Service Pack 1.". The part number is P/N 6W896. One thing, however is that when I ordered my system I upgraded from XP Home to Pro. Maybe if you don't upgrade the OS you don't get the CD.
Hope this helps.
David.

I do the restore when rebooting, does that take EVERYTHING as if I reformatted?  I mean, every program I have installed....SP2....all will be gone?

 

(and yes..that is CRUMMYabout the wingdings!  I don't even understand the point of those things!)

April33,

If you can get there go to Start|Control Panel|Display. On the Appearance tab click the Advanced button. On the dialog that opens select "Icon" from the Item: menu and set the font to Tahoma size 8 (which is the default).

Alernatively, if you can do it, use System Restore to get back to a state prior to the onset of the Wingding font.

carrie640,

I answered your question in Customer Care - General.

Message Edited by Denny Denham on 01-14-2005 08:32 PM

I will try the Start/Control Panel/Display thing. It is just that everything is in Wingding and I am guessing as to which buttons to select.

Thanks anyway.

Pat

You should have 2 drivers and utilities disks, 2 application disks and one that reads Operating System. The operation system title reads "Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition including Service Pack 1a." I hope that this helps you.

Someone also told me that in order for me to restore my system is to start it in Safe Mode and then go to Restore System. My problem is that I can't read anything because it is all in Wingding font. I just bed that I will have to remove Windows and reinstall.

Let me know, if you need any more help.

Pat

It will just restore from a date or point that you want to restore. No, it is not like reformatting.

Pat

I cannot get beyond the Start Button because everything else is in the Wingding font. I tried the System Restore but couldn't because all the words and instructions are in the Wingding font, so therefore I cannot read the instructions.

Pat

David

Thanks very much. I will try it. You seem to have understood my problem that I couldn't read anything. I even tried it in the Safe Mode but it was all in the Wingding, also.