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Posted by Domesticated on Mar-02-2008 07:31:

Weird computer problem

I was in the middle of something today and all of a sudden all the fonts within all my programs (firefox, winamp etc), changed to italics.

Everything on XP itself is fine, all my folders and icons are in normal font.

How do I fix this? It's weird, just happened out of no where.

Is this like that bug that reverses your right and left click mouse buttons occasionally then just changes back whenever it feels like it?

Posted by smakmagik on Mar-02-2008 07:47:

Has to be weird if it belongs in the MD

Posted by chucho on Mar-02-2008 08:06:

your computer's been font'd

throw it away

no need to thank me

Posted by KilldaDJ on Mar-02-2008 10:27:

system fontz? broked?

Posted by eROs.au on Mar-02-2008 10:45:

No shit? This exact thing happened to me last week.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=18877

They recommended redoing the fonts. Ive gotten used to the italics so I havent bothered trying yet. You do it and tell me if it works

Posted by aquila on Mar-02-2008 11:25:

A more recent reply on that forum has suggested resetting your desktop theme back to the standard Windows XP theme and see if that helps. Otherwise a system restore back to before it started happening.

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Mar-02-2008 13:40:

Sounds like a font may have been accidentally deleted. Have a read of 'approach 2' at the following link:

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/...t-problems.html

Posted by Domesticated on Mar-05-2008 11:00:

quote:
Originally posted by eROs.au
No shit? This exact thing happened to me last week.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=18877

They recommended redoing the fonts. Ive gotten used to the italics so I havent bothered trying yet. You do it and tell me if it works

The very bottom post worked for me; reinstalling the system fonts.

Thankfully it wasn't a hassle; could have been far worse.

Posted by Cloudburst on Mar-05-2008 12:44:

I'v been reading this happening to different people on different forums. Maybe some new virus going around.