Re: How do you re-install WinXP fonts?



Ellie <eleanorrigby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have just bought a new computer and XP was already installed on it. I
>transferred over most of the data from my old computer and the transfer
>program found fonts on the new computer with the same names as Win95's
>fonts . . . and so my transfer program asked me, as they do, whether I
>"really wanted to replace" the XP fonts! Well, as my Win95 fonts were
>so much smaller in comparison to XP's I went and pressed "Yes!"
>
>But now I find that many onscreen fonts in XP and in Internet Explorer
>seem a bit odd and below par, and so I suspect that Win95 fonts don't
>work so well in XP, although they have the same names!

I would reinstall Windows XP as described here: "How to Perform an
In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315341).

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