Solved Control Panel -> Fonts Folder: Some Fonts Display Strangely

[dwightmccann]

I am running Win 7 Pro 64-bit with 24GB memory and lots of disk with a Dual Core i7 930. When I go to Control Panel->All Control Panel Items->Fonts I see file icons, most of which have examples of the fonts they represent. The hidden fonts are grayed out. But I have a significant number of fonts that display the same preview on the file icon that is nothing like what the font looks like. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix?

TIA,
Dwight

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I am not sure Dwight but try these mate see if they make any difference



http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

 

[dwightmccann]

I am pretty careful about the condition of my disks. The system disk is an SSD and I check it every couple of months anyway but I did run 'chkdsk' during a reboot without errors. As another note, there are 19 "corrupt" icons out of 1061 fonts. I also tried 'refresh' from the right-click menu without change.

 

[dwightmccann]

I have now tried deleting and reloading several of the fonts without any difference in the icon display. And I have discovered there is at least one other font that displays a different font on the icon than the actual font. Most fonts, however, appear uncorrupted.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok Dwight just to eliminate any malwares run these mate.

http://www.superantispyware.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

 

[dwightmccann]

I have Eset NOD32 installed on my computers and update the signatures daily and run the continuous monitoring functions ... have had it since before I built my current machine. I also run NoScript and AdBlock on my Firefox. And I run the MS malware updates each month.

Given that I can't seem to find out how these icon images are created by Windows' font control but that so many are correct I suspect that it is some sort of corruption or incorrect use of standards in the font files themselves ... or just that they are so old. These are all free fonts and the ones I looked at are from 2006. It just doesn't have the feel of a virus. If you have specific reason to believe otherwise I am very open to running additional anti-badware programs but I'm feeling this isn't a problem worth solving given my level of ignorance.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hum Dwight I am still not convinced it is not malware you might try running these two again to eliminate tis possibility. The Kaspersky will run from boot and therefore looks at everything the Emsisoft I used myself recently and found it made my main machine run so much better.

Run the Emsisoft first and then the Kaspersky for which you will have to make a bootable disk and set the BIOS top boot from the optical.

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/ use the first scanner and when downloading any stuff like this be wary of those add ons that some come with and are usually crap.

5 Bootable AntiVirus Rescue CD for Windows: Free Download download from the link given within this link.

Both take very little time to run.

 

[dwightmccann]

OK, I'll start on it tomorrow ... I really don't want malware on my machine!

 

[dwightmccann]

Ran the EMIS scanner ... found nine 'no risk' issues, mostly keys ... I quarantined them anyway. I am burning the Kaspersky Bootable CD as we speak. I'll update as I go along.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok mate let us know how you go.

 

[dwightmccann]

Hmmm, burned the .iso to disk but it wouldn't boot. I'll look into creating a bootable USB with it.

 

[dwightmccann]

Tried to use the Karpersky USB creation tool but it didn't like some files that it didn't name. Back to square one.

 

[dwightmccann]

Well, attempting to create the Karpersky bootable rescue disk has been a complete failure. I have carefully downloaded the .iso twice, restarted my computer three times and then only tried to create the bootable USB drive getting this error most of the time, which is really quite useless.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Dwight have just found that thee is a problem with the Kaspersky server so it may be why you cannot get it properly.

There is this one but it will have to be made on another machine though. [Rescue CD] Tutorial for Avira Rescue CD - Tipps und Tricks - Avira Support Forum

There us also this one which I find rather good How to Use the BitDefender Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC

 

[dwightmccann]

I downloaded BitDefender and ImgBurn and created a bootable CD. It boots just fine in both normal and verbose modes but at the end of the bootup my monitor just does blank and the machine becomes unresponsive. In each mode I finally (after waiting about two or three minutes) had to reset the box. I'm not very impressed by these bootable solutions.

 

[dwightmccann]

Well, it is apparently a known issue among some of the font aficionados having to do with settings used when the font is created (I think) using Fontlab. Since I don't have the application I am abandoning trying to "fix" it since the fonts were free. Thank you for all your help. [I did a search on sigma not equal square root font error.]

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Dwifgh sorry late reply mate this is a site a lot of us use dafont.com