Windows 10 show garbage characters

My windows 10 show garbage characters, I guess I didn't do anything special, but when I start my computer, it looks like this now. is there anything I can do right now?

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Timeless

Posted 2015-08-03T14:33:25.220

Reputation: 219

3Did you change the language or anything like that? – MC10 – 2015-08-03T14:34:00.000

I didn't change language, but I think I installed a font before last shut down. But I did install fonts on windows 7 or 8, never had this problem before. – Timeless – 2015-08-03T14:36:43.520

Oh ok. Well try this, Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → under Fonts select Change Font Settings → Restore default font settings. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T14:45:36.467

@MC10 I'm not sure if you could help me take a screenshot of this page, I'm not able to recognize the characters. – Timeless – 2015-08-03T14:52:09.317

Oh yeah, I'll post an answer with screenshots. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T14:53:02.110

@MC10 thanks a lot, I'm trying now. appreciate your help. – Timeless – 2015-08-03T15:02:53.867

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

– Timeless – 2015-08-03T16:30:20.693

Answers

Since OP cannot read the menus, use the images for reference.

Open Control Panel and go to Appearance and Personalization.

Now under Fonts select Change Font Settings.

In the new window that opens, under Font Settings, click Restore default font settings.

MC10

Posted 2015-08-03T14:33:25.220

Reputation: 7 590

Dang, that's unfortunate. Is there any system restore you can do? How did you install the font? – MC10 – 2015-08-03T15:58:35.127

I double clicked a .ttc file and the font be installed. I guess it is the decoding part is wrong. – Timeless – 2015-08-03T16:14:19.463

Oh... that's a Mac OS X font file. You would have to convert it. I'm not sure how to restore your system though. Try running sfc/ scannow or you may have to do a reset. Do you have any system restores available?

– MC10 – 2015-08-03T16:16:32.590

yes, didn't think much, our designer put the font inside the dropbox, I just made a try to install. I guess I will try to reinstall or rollback to win 8.1. – Timeless – 2015-08-03T16:19:13.953

@MC10: .ttc fonts are not necessarily "OS X font files" – they're regular TrueType "collections", Microsoft itself has shipped several such fonts for the past few years, starting with Cambria.ttc in Office 2007. I think even WinXP supports that. – user1686 – 2015-08-04T07:27:23.413

@grawity this has occurred when I deleted C:\Windows\Fonts, could OP just replace that directory with a good one? – Michael Bailey – 2015-08-04T23:17:48.657

1@MichaelBailey I'm not sure but that is probably possible. I think he mentioned in chat that he eventually chose to rollback to Windows 8.1 for the time being though. – MC10 – 2015-08-04T23:28:14.077

I've just had this same problem. I was able to fix it by reinstalling all fonts from a font directory I keep as a back-up.

Now, of course the question is: how do you get to this back-up font directory? :-) I was lucky enough to have stored that directory on a home server, so I could access it from another computer and simply count the n-th directory from the top, and so forth.

Good luck!

Marten

Posted 2015-08-03T14:33:25.220

Reputation: 11

You could also do this by booting from recovery media and copying the Fonts folder from a working computer. – Ben N – 2016-02-09T15:18:20.980