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How can I prevent fonts installed by me from disappearing on windows reboot?
This is similar to this question in SF, except that this is happenning on my laptop where my user id is part of the administrators group.
The fonts that I install disappear after a reboot. I need ...
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Any Unix with Windows XP like fonts?
I'd like to try a Linux- or BSD-based OS on my desktop. But all distros I've seen so far have fonts that feel unnatural after Windows XP. Could you recommend a distributive or a way to make them like ...
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How do I use the Consolas font in the Windows XP command prompt?
How? I can see only two options in the properties dialog: "Lucida Console" and "Raster Fonts". Is there any way to switch to Consolas (short of replacing the Lucida TTF file with the Consolas TTF file)...
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Japanese characters has Chinese fonts
The other day, I had problems viewing a document, because it was encoded in ANSI. So I went and changed the system language to Chinese (nothing AppLocale could fix for some reason). When I was done, I ...
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Are .fon (bitmap font) files needed in Windows XP?
I'm trying to make a minimal XP installation for low-end machines, and I want to remove anything that could slow the system down.
I've heard many fonts installed slow down the boot process, so I'd ...
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Font recognized in Windows XP but not Windows 7
I've created a font namely ROAD.TTF for XP using software named "Softy", but when I install my font ROAD.TTF to Windows 7, it seems that the system doesn't recognize the "characters" starting from ...
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Certain Japanese characters aren't displayed properly
On the following site:
http://www.nciku.com/search/radical
the first 2 characters on the second row of the "Step 2" table aren't displayed properly. All other characters look fine.
I tried re-...
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How to change a foreign language system font in Windows XP?
How is it possible to change the system font of a foreign langauge in Windows XP?
By "foreign language system font" I mean for example the font that's used in Notepad or Skype by default for the ...
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How can I fix my fonts being unreadable in Java and Flash applications?
I have been seeing this in a Java application that wasn't present earlier.
I had done something with the smooth fonts utility provided by Windows XP, which could be the source of the problem. So I ...
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How to fix Windows XP's extremely sharp fonts?
I'm on a Mac, but I need to work with Visual Studio, so I run WinXP with Parallels.
Windows 7 is to heavy for my Mac Mini. Compared to Windows 7 And Mac OS X, WinXP has terrible fonts. They are ...
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How can I fix the fonts on my windows XP box?
I'm using a corporate build of Windows XP. When I view a github wikipage, for instance https://github.com/fholm/IronJS/wiki/Compiling-from-source I get terrible display of the fonts.
If I disable the ...
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Fonts cause of performance issues?
I have the dubious honor of cleaning up my father in law's malware infested laptop. I think I almost have the malware issue solved, and now I am turning my attention to general performance. Do you ...
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How do I allow XP limited user to install fonts?
How do I allow limited user to install fonts? I can't give administrator's rights to the staff at my workplace, but they need to be able to install new fonts to do their graphic design work.
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How do I fix font corruption in Google Chrome 9.0.597.44beta in Windows XP?
I am not sure what is causing this problem, but I think it is related to unicode problems. Google Chrome, seemingly out of nowhere a month ago, stopped rendering unicode characters in certain fonts. ...
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Installing a large number of fonts in XP at once
Can you suggest a way for windows to recurse all the folders and subfolders (after unzipping) containing the fonts I recently acquired instead of having to install them one by one? There are about 200....
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