Well for starters, try
display properties ->
appearance ->
advanced ->
Probably "Message box" from the combo box, and check to see if it has a funny font or italics chosen.
It's just a run box. It's not on the menu in Vista I don't think but
you can access it by holding down the Windows key and hitting
the r key.
Why C:\adfesdf was there by default I have no idea but unless
you have "hide known extensions" checked it should end in.exe if
it was an .exe file. Google don't know what C:\adfesdf was but
asked if I meant C:\adfasdf so I clicked that and it didn't know
what that was either. It probably does nothing.
I just put that in there for display. The point is all the text is italicized for no known reason. The Windows security screen is the same way, it says "Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to log on.".
I can't restore anything as I've disabled System Restore/System Recovery (I always hated that).
OK setting it to "Windows Vista" style was HORRIBLE! EVERYTHING was italicized: Window titles, taskbar buttons, Start menu entires, desktop icon titles, tool tips... EVERYTHING.
Setting it back to "Windows Classic" returns to my previous state.
Uh... italics is a type of font, not a different font.
I know, what happened with my system was for some reason, it wouldn't properly read the font files used throughout the UI such as Arial so it would find something else similar to replace it with usually ending up in italics or bold.
Though there was the one time it didn't have anything similar to replace it with and it was all boxes, I think that was after I installed Asian language support on XP.
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display properties ->
appearance ->
advanced ->
Probably "Message box" from the combo box, and check to see if it has a funny font or italics chosen.
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http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... /setup.exe
And I am not going to trust an EXE without a description page.
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you can access it by holding down the Windows key and hitting
the r key.
Why C:\adfesdf was there by default I have no idea but unless
you have "hide known extensions" checked it should end in.exe if
it was an .exe file. Google don't know what C:\adfesdf was but
asked if I meant C:\adfasdf so I clicked that and it didn't know
what that was either. It probably does nothing.
Thump
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http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cle ... Step1.aspx
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The only thing I can think to try is resetting the theme, like switch over to Aero and then back to Classic.
There's some setting somewhere that screwed up.
What were you doing just before you noticed this?
control panel / display settings / appearance
You can set fonts italic there.
Try navigating manually to the fonts folder so it'll re-read those files, re-applying your current theme settings and then a good restart.
If there's a TweakUI tool for Vista, download it and try Rebuilding the Fonts folder, that also works.
I was screwing around with uninstalling programs when this happened.
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OK setting it to "Windows Vista" style was HORRIBLE! EVERYTHING was italicized: Window titles, taskbar buttons, Start menu entires, desktop icon titles, tool tips... EVERYTHING.
Setting it back to "Windows Classic" returns to my previous state.
Refreshing my font folder similarly does nothing.
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Though there was the one time it didn't have anything similar to replace it with and it was all boxes, I think that was after I installed Asian language support on XP.
georgia = georgia
georgiai = georgia italic
georgiab = georgia bold
georgiaz = georgia bold italics.
I suspect that the font indicator for SHELL FONT 2 is pointing to a font file that ends in 'i', that is, an italic font.
So where is that specified? The Registry?
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