So in this case you would end up with 4 files Repeat the process for the other keys listed. The Desktop is a good location, and something like Fontsubs for the name. To export, right click on FontSubstitutes, then click Export.Ī save as dialog will appear, where you chose a location to save and a name of your choice. Under CurrentVersion find FontSubstitutes
You navigate to a particular folder by expanding each part in the left pane to get to the last one, so for the first one you would expand these by clicking the plus sign in from of the name:
The Registry Editor is kind of like Windows Explorer, where keys (folders) are listed on the left, and contents on the right. To export a key, click Start, type regedit in the search box, then press Enter This will create a registry file with a name you choose with a. To export the keys means to save the settings for the items being changed, so if needed, you can merge the original settings back in. It will use the italic version of the font whenever the regular version is called for. Meaning the Arial font is in a file named arial.ttf. In this file, it just resets the basic font settings to the correct values. On Vista you'll get the usual UAC prompt when you do system related things (unless you've turned it off) plus a warning message about adding stuff to the registry, just to confirm that you really want to add the settings.
You download it to your desktop and double click the file to merge the settings it contains into the Windows Registry. These are plain text files you can read in Notepad, though they are often rather cryptic. The file I suggested you download from the web site link in the previous post is a registry settings file, it has a. Sorry about that, was in a rush and didn't see you have your experience as Beginner or I would have gone into more detail. If anyone wants to take a look I would appreciate it, I don't know if there are other implications involved with this "italicization" for want of a better word!Īlso attached is a link to previous thread for any detailed background information:. Anyway, this only partially fixed the problem as the fonts in my taskbar are still italic, the fonts on my start-up welcome/logging off/shutting down screen are italic plus other areas, such as the Personalization screen - screen shot attached. I was advised to go into Themes and change the fonts, which I did to Arial (don't know what fonts were used originally but Arial looked pretty close).
BISS Hosts Manager was uninstalled and as soon as it uninstalled all of my on screen fonts changed to an italic font - Segoe UI. I was having problems opening sponsored links and so after going through all the security related things it could be and any malware things it could be, it was finally discovered that BISS Hosts Manager was causing the problem.
Hi, I've been getting another problem sorted in web&email / malware and I've been advised to post here for finishing touches so to speak.