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November 15th, 2005 00:00
Default text in italics
My computer has been putting any text that is not style-overridden in italics. It's not a theme setting, all of that is normal, and changing the theme does nothing to help. It's not just a web thing, since it does it in program menus, form boxes, and error-message text. Anything bolded is not affected, though underlined links are.
I'm really not sure why it's doing this. It started last month when I was running WinXP SP2. Now, after two complete reinstalls, it's on SP1 and doing it again.
Is there something in the registry that I can change, or somewhere I should be looking to see what this is? Would a program I installed do this? I system-restored to a time before it showed up and it was still doing it. So whatever it is, it doesn't get removed with a restore.
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I'm really not sure why it's doing this. It started last month when I was running WinXP SP2. Now, after two complete reinstalls, it's on SP1 and doing it again.
Is there something in the registry that I can change, or somewhere I should be looking to see what this is? Would a program I installed do this? I system-restored to a time before it showed up and it was still doing it. So whatever it is, it doesn't get removed with a restore.
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Message Edited by PureDiamond8865 on 11-14-2005 09:25 PM
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RoHe
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November 15th, 2005 17:00
Click Appearances tab
Click Advanced button
Click on item(s) such as Active Window, Inactive Window, Message Box, etc. and you should be able to set the font for each. There's a button on the right to toggle Italics on/off.
There's probably a way to do this globally, but maybe this will get you by until somebody else chimes in with that fix.
Ron
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November 15th, 2005 23:00
I've wiped and reinstalled everything twice on here, so I'm starting to think it might be from a program or windows fix or something like that. I don't know where to start looking to find out which one it could be though.
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November 16th, 2005 00:00
Here's a link to MS where they tell you how to reinstall fonts.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314960
Strange that it keeps occuring even after you reinstall XP. Maybe try using a different default font than Arial and see if that works.
Ron