Some fonts, especially those in "Help" (usually headings, or labels under icons) in Windows, and in dialogue boxes on web sites(e.g., where you enter parameters for search) show up as ASCII line and box drawing characters (codes 176-223), which I can't reproduce here. Sure does make it hard to read what's already written, or with the dialogue boxes, what I've written. I haven't deleted any fonts; I'm running ATM, but have been for 9 months, and the problem just started. Solutions, ideas, or comments appreciated.

How long has this been happening? If it hasn't been very long have you considered system restore? If you can't/don't want to use system restore... What happens if you boot into safe mode? Are the fonts there still pooched? In IE... go to View>>encoding. What is it set to?

You may have visited a website that altered your Internet Explorer settings ... or you may have made an adjustment to view such a site and not realised it would cause this as a side-effect.

Annika: If that were the case, how do I undo it? Newgrl: Encoding is set to Western European (Windows).

Hi! I had the same problem yesterday and what I did was go to a ms-dos prompt, then go to the common directory by typing cd\ at the windows prompt and then type scanreg/restore. This will give you an option to choose the earliest copy of the windows registry, choose this earliest registry for windows to restore to. If this registry was recorded before the problem started, then everything will be back to normal!