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I'm on Windows XP.
Some time ago, while trying out a number of different font management programs, something went wrong. I don't know what happened but now some applications, in some of their GUI controls, use the System(12) font instead of the Windows default one (which should be Microsoft Sans Serif 8, I think).
This happens, for example, with most installers (at the beginning of the installation, in subsequent dialogs the fonts display just fine), and a number of programs.
Here's Microsoft/Sysinternals' Autoruns:
You can see the tab names, as well as the text in the bottom panel, displayed with the System(12) font. On a different machine, they simply use "MS Sans Serif 8" (detected using HwndSpy).
I tried:
- deleting the Windows font cache file (c:\windows\system32\fntcache.dat)
- modifying the registry values for "MS Shell Dlg" and "MS Shell Dlg 2", as explained here
...to no avail.
Any suggestions on what else I could try to have the default font back?
+1, because you:
by mentioning "resources" helped me remember that I could have just used a resource editor to get at the font used in the program dialog (instead of using a Window Spy program); and
mentioned the name of the font, pointing me at the direction where the solution stood, waiting.
The font was in the right folder but, as you say, uninstalled. Thanks again. – TataBlack – 2009-12-16T15:31:55.750