Bad Fonts

[Tad Bridenthal]

Greetings All,
I recently installed a small Fujitsu scanner and now the fonts in some of the dialog boxes have gone weird. When closing WordPad I get the word "document" and lots of little square boxes.

Anyone have any ideas about this ??
Thanks,
Tad

[Medico]

Tad, Welcome to the Lounge.

Have you tried to uninstall the scanner S/W to see if the problem disappears? Is the scanner specifically designed for use with XP? I would first try to remove it and see what happens then go from there.

[jwitalka]

Try a System Restore to a point prior to the scanner install. If it works, go to the

Fujitsu web site and see if they have a more recent driver for the scanner. If System restore doesn't work, you could try an XP repair install.

Jerry

[Tad Bridenthal]

Thanks guys,
Removing the scanner didn't fix anything. I guess I have some corrupt fonts. Now have to figure out how to fix them.
Naturally, I didn't do a restore point before installing the scanner. That would have been too intelligent.
Any advice appreciated,
Tad

[Medico]

Perhaps this page might help to repair the bad fonts.

[Tad Bridenthal]

Greetings,
After MANY tries to repair fonts it turns out they weren't the trouble. Found this in a 2007 teck thread:
"This happens if the file MFC42LOC.DLL is present in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. This is a localization file used by various programs, and deleting this file (always backup first) should resolve the problem.
Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com"

You can't delete it but renaming did the job. I am RELIEVED.
Thanks for all the good advice.
Tad

[Medico]

Glad you solved this somewhat unusual problem.