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"Interesting" Windows Problem

Raptor · 2006-04-11 22:24:30

Howdy all. Turned on the computer this evening and now have the following problem: Almost all text has become just a collection of symbols, x's, squares, triangles etc. The Start button now displays 5 symbols, all properties, dialogues etc the same. Internet text is fine, but thats bout it. Ran full anti virus scan with no…

11-04-2006 10:24pm

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Raptor

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Howdy all.

Turned on the computer this evening and now have the following problem:

Almost all text has become just a collection of symbols, x's, squares, triangles etc. The Start button now displays 5 symbols, all properties, dialogues etc the same. Internet text is fine, but thats bout it. Ran full anti virus scan with no luck, but does seem quite virus like.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated

David

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#2 11-04-2006 10:28pm

Stark

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Sounds like your font cache is corrupt. Try downloading TweakUI and using its "Repair Fonts" option.

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#3 11-04-2006 10:32pm

awhir

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Raptor wrote:

Howdy all.

Turned on the computer this evening and now have the following problem:

Almost all text has become just a collection of symbols, x's, squares, triangles etc. The Start button now displays 5 symbols, all properties, dialogues etc the same. Internet text is fine, but thats bout it. Ran full anti virus scan with no luck, but does seem quite virus like.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated

David

thats sounds cool.

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#4 11-04-2006 11:43pm
**Timbuk2**

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claregalway Qs wrote:

thats sounds cool.

that was very unhelpful. Why bother posting if your not going to help??

Please read the charter

OP, Did you try running
Ad-Aware (in safe-mode)

Spybot (in safe-mode)

Windows Defender (in safe-mode)

Scandisk (to fix bad sectors)

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#5 11-04-2006 11:49pm

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It could be:

Corrupt font cache (like Stark said above)
Bad graphics driver
Failing graphics card

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#6 11-04-2006 11:58pm

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I'd love a screen shot!

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#7 12-04-2006 4:16am

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Aye the repair font in Tweak UI should do the job, also rebuild icon cache (i think) too. What version of Windows are you running?

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#8 12-04-2006 8:08am

wavin

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Raptor wrote:

Howdy all.

Turned on the computer this evening and now have the following problem:

Almost all text has become just a collection of symbols, x's, squares, triangles etc. The Start button now displays 5 symbols, all properties, dialogues etc the same. Internet text is fine, but thats bout it. Ran full anti virus scan with no luck, but does seem quite virus like.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated

David

did you do any formatting or upgrading of OS recently?

a while back i upgraded my OS from win98se to XP.I had two harddrives connected to the computer.during the upgrade the free space on the second harddrive got converted to NTFS with the used space remained FAT32. whenever i added files, after the upgrade, to that drive old files got replaced with symbols similar to what your describing.triangles and stuff.

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#9 12-04-2006 9:18am

oneweb

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Try going into Control Panel, Display, Appearance, Advanced, and set any Items that have a font to "Tahoma" or "Arial".

It is what it's.

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#10 12-04-2006 9:31am
awhir

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**Timbuk2** wrote:

that was very unhelpful. Why bother posting if your not going to help??

Please read the charter

OP, Did you try running
Ad-Aware (in safe-mode)

Spybot (in safe-mode)

Windows Defender (in safe-mode)

Scandisk (to fix bad sectors)

ok drry :eek:

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