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[ITweijie]

After my brother used the PC , this happened.

 

[wilywombat]

Has he changed the default font colour to white?

 

[toughbook]

I would be beating on him until he told me what he did! At least that's what my Brother would do to me

 

[seavixen32]

Welcome to Windows Seven Forums.

Before you kill him, drag it out of him what he did, because I'd be interested to know.

My only suggestion is to boot into Safe Mode (hit F8 on booting up) and do a system restore to a point before the little blighter messed with your computer.

 

[ZyanWu]

Go to Control Panel/Fonts.
Make sure "Segoe UI" is still there. If not, download and install it.
Right click your desktop -> Personalize -> Window Color -> Advanced appearance settings...
Take every item that supports font selection and set it to "Segoe UI", size 9 and color it black.

Report back to us is you run into any trouble.
If you manage to solve your problem please mark this thread as solved and if it's not to much hassle, tell us what happened.

 

[StalkeR]

Take a look at this tutorial
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1175-fonts-change.html

Find there To Change the Item Font Color

 

[ITweijie]

I ask my brother and he said he did his project only. And i tried restoring and wont work..
About changing fonts , maybe i will try it tomorrow as i am using Windows XP now.

 

[ITweijie]

Segoe UI is there. But in the advanced appearance settings , the font section is grayed out.

 

[seavixen32]

Do you have another computer with an up-to-date Fonts folder?

If so, just copy and paste its contents to your corrupted Fonts folder and you should be good to go, which will leave you free to kill your kid brother.

 

[ITweijie]

No... i only have another Windows XP.

 

[ZyanWu]

Take every item that supports font selection and set it to "Segoe UI", size 9 and color it black.
Desktop doesn't support font selection. Only these items support the function:

• Active title bar
• Icon
• Inactive title bar
• Menu
• Message box
• Palette title
• Selected items
• Tool tip

Just check these items first and I'll post something else in 5 mins.

 

[ZyanWu]

Open notepad, copy/paste the code below, save the file as cfc.BAT

@echo off
echo Your computer will restart after this, close all programs/save your work etc. and
pause
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
net stop "FontCache"
CD /d %windir%\system32
attrib -h -s -r Fntcache.dat
DEL Fntcache.dat /a
shutdown /r /t 5

Save all your work, close all open programs and then
right click on the file and select "Run as administrator...".

 

[ITweijie]

Open notepad, copy/paste the code below, save the file as cfc.BAT

@echo off
echo Your computer will restart after this, close all programs/save your work etc. and
pause
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
net stop "FontCache"
CD /d %windir%\system32
attrib -h -s -r Fntcache.dat
DEL Fntcache.dat /a
shutdown /r /t 5

Save all your work, close all open programs and then
right click on the file and select "Run as administrator...".

What does this do?
Anyways... It is my older brother

 

[ZyanWu]

It clears your font cache.

[B]taskkill [/B]- used for closing applications/processes
(you can't delete a file that's being used by an application 
so you have to close the app first)

[B]net stop [/B]- stops a service
(you can see a list of running services if you hit Start-Run 
and type in Services.msc)
(but don't change anything unless you know what you're 
doing)

[B]cd [/B]- changes the current directory

[B]attrib [/B]- sets file attributes 
(the "del" command below can't delete files that are marked 
as read only or marked as a system file)

[B]del [/B]- delete a file from the current directory or from a 
given path

[B]shutdown [/B]- used for shutting down, rebooting, logging off or 
hibernating your pc

 

[wilywombat]

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F - kills your windows explorer
net stop "FontCache" - stops the font cache service
CD /d %windir%\system32
attrib -h -s -r Fntcache.dat - Changes directory to Windows\System32 directory and makes the font cache data file writable, and visible.
DEL Fntcache.dat /a - Deletes your font cache data file
shutdown /r /t 5 - Shuts down and reboots your computer after a 5 sec delay.

Whoever put this on your computer has deliberately wrecked your display fonts and you should ask them why they have done this.

 

[ZyanWu]

Whoever put this on your computer has deliberately wrecked your display fonts and you should ask them why they have done this.

I tested the code on my PC first and - surprisingly - it didn't cause any damage. :sarc:

 

[wilywombat]

Only translating the commands....

 

[ITweijie]

Open notepad, copy/paste the code below, save the file as cfc.BAT

@echo off
echo Your computer will restart after this, close all programs/save your work etc. and
pause
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
net stop "FontCache"
CD /d %windir%\system32
attrib -h -s -r Fntcache.dat
DEL Fntcache.dat /a
shutdown /r /t 5

Save all your work, close all open programs and then
right click on the file and select "Run as administrator...".

Sorry for late reply. The BAT file you gave me did not work. Still no fonts.

 

[wilywombat]

Try running your system up and doing a repair install as long as you have an original installation disc. If you are not sure on this, here are the instructions:- http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

 

[ITweijie]

I tried and still not working..