Solved Windows 7 Pro - Starts up with Wingdings as the default font

[da180]

As the title states, every other day or so after being off for about 16 hours, when I start the computer, Wingdings is the default font.
I did complete computer scans with Avast, Malware Bytes and Microsoft Essentials. There is no virus or malware detected!

A search on the forum recommended the above and also suggested that the font registration goes bad when using Windows update while anti-virus is on. However, that scenario is allegedly only on Windows XP machines.

My cure is to merge a font registry fix and restart, then all is back to normal. I may end up doing a re-install, but would appreciate any suggestions or fixes that would do the trick for me.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Who else has access to your computer?

 

[da180]

No one has access to the computer but myself and teen daughters who use it for email and homework. Their web surfing is closely supervised.


BTW (off the point) I have been to Lethbridge, Calgary, Banff, etc., love your country up there.

 

[PooMan UK]

Have you had a looky here pal

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1175-fonts-change.html

 

[da180]

I have looked at those. The reg file for the Segoe UI font is the one I use to restore to default.
Do you suggest I follow a different procedure or ???

 

[da180]

OK, I did some looking around. According to my registry, I only have five fonts installed.

It appears as though I may just have to do a repair installation.

Thoughts?

 

[da180]

I think this is solved. I copied all of my fonts from another Windows 7 machine, installed and then deleted the Wingdings from the list.

 

[FuturDreamz]

No one has access to the computer but myself and teen daughters who use it for email and homework. Their web surfing is closely supervised.


BTW (off the point) I have been to Lethbridge, Calgary, Banff, etc., love your country up there.

Good to herar you got it solved though. I was thinking someone was doing this as a prank.

Oh and when did you go to lethbridge? Wind season? Snow Season? Teflon Road season? Or when-the-weather-is-actually-good-yet-rainy-enough-for-everything-to-be-lush-and-green season?

 

[da180]

Icefire: I thought it was a prank also. I'm glad I brought the problem here, you guys got me thinking.

I was up there in June in 2004 for about four days. We had one rainy day. Sun and cool the rest. I really enjoyed the mountains, lakes, bears, etc.

 

[hespinoza3]

I have found that this happens after every automatic system restore point gets created. Anyone else?
I keep having to restore to a manual restore point.