Comments on: Windows XP dialogs using bold fonts

By: Happy Again

Happy Again — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:07:08 +0000

Worked perfect for me!
Thank you very much!

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:08:59 +0000

Hiya

Please note that the correct font to be used here is the micross.ttf font rather than the fixed-size system fonts. This will scale and look better if font sizes change in response to changing the DPI settings for instance.

Peace

By: Danart

Danart — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:30:47 +0000

trying to learn registry values…what does reg_sv or reg_sz mean?
or the string Reg_multi_sz
or,
tasklist_svc
it pops up everywhere, but I don’t get an exact definition…is it a well known acronym?
signed…uninformed….

By: Vince

Vince — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:20:26 +0000

Very helpful. Thanks!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:31:55 +0000

Shane, I was away in December and obviously missed your comment. I hope you have sorted it out. I did experience that particular problem when I had been messing around in my Fonts folder. I corrupted *something* and suddenly Arial Black was only italics. I don’t know whether this was your problem, but all I had to do was uninstall the font and reinstalled it from the Windows XP CD.

This will restore all your default fonts to the XP Font Folder:
Open a DOS Command Prompt and browse to the i386 folder on your CD and execute the following:

expand -r *.tt_ C:\WINDOWS\FONTS

By: shane

shane — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:53:45 +0000

I have a similar problem. The difference is many of my fonts appear in italics. Do you have any ideas?

By: Hopless Guy

Hopless Guy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:21:02 +0000

TNX!!!!
This was REALLY annoying the last 2 days
now it’s over!!!!
Great!

From now on: HopeFull Guy!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:41:00 +0000

Dave,

I can’t assist with Office 2007 as my experience is limited there, but I’ll try do what I can. When you say you “can’t find MS Sans Serif” do you mean it is no longer in your C:Windows/Fonts folder?
In my Fonts folder it is listed as font name: MS Sans Serif font 8,10,12,14,18,24 (8514/a)and it’s actual file name is SSERIFF.FON
If it’s not there then using plain old Windows Search for that file name should get it for you and you can copy and paste into the Fonts folder. If Search doesn’t find it anywhere then you will need to restore it from your Windows XP installation disk (that’s another story).
The registry isn’t going to help you find it if you don’t know were it is so before I tell you to type XYZ in the registry please note that if this is the first time you’re using regedit.exe please be aware of the DANGER because there is no undo and one mistake can easily stuff up your whole system (meaning re-install windows and start from scratch kind of stuff up).
PS. are those typos in your comment or is yours really called MS Sans Sarif (not MS Sans Serif), and SEIFE.FON (not SSERIFF.FON)?