I installed some software from National Instruments and after the reboot, my system was screwed up (a similar thing happened about a year ago and the only fix was to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows). The most obvious symptom is that the three window buttons in the upper right corner of a typical window are incorrect (see attached file). I don't care about this, but my email client (Thunderbird) and browser (Firefox) would not boot up, even after being reinstalled.
When I ran Open Office, I only had three fonts available: Arial Narrow, Lucida Sans, and one other that I've forgotten. I used my old copy of HP Fontsmart (still a great program) to uninstall and re-install all the fonts I had installed before. After a reboot, this improved things, as the top three buttons were now different and I could boot Firefox and Thunderbird.
My guess is that a font file is missing or hosed. Thus, would someone with a Windows XP system with Service Pack 2 do me a favor and run a hash tool like md5 or sha1 on all *.ttf and *.fon files under the Windows directory? You could post the results on this thread. Thanks!
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When I ran Open Office, I only had three fonts available: Arial Narrow, Lucida Sans, and one other that I've forgotten. I used my old copy of HP Fontsmart (still a great program) to uninstall and re-install all the fonts I had installed before. After a reboot, this improved things, as the top three buttons were now different and I could boot Firefox and Thunderbird.
My guess is that a font file is missing or hosed. Thus, would someone with a Windows XP system with Service Pack 2 do me a favor and run a hash tool like md5 or sha1 on all *.ttf and *.fon files under the Windows directory? You could post the results on this thread. Thanks!
Oh,
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