Default browser font changed to italics in IE

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After booting my machine this morning I noticed that most fonts displayed on
Web pages are now in italics. I have not changed any font settings anywhere -
how do I to back to windows default text settings for the browser? I can't
find anywhere to change this in IE or display settings, is this something
that needs to be edited in the registry?
 
Hi Panter,
Try this, Go to the IE Properties Click on Tools >> Internet Options >> On
General Tab go to Font it located in the bottom of the Gerneral Tab Window
clcik on it and you can change the Font on both to this in the Language
Script : Latin Based
Web page font: | Plain text font :
Times New Roman | Courier New
Click Ok and Refresh try to open the Website or your homepage and see if it
solved the problem.
Hope this helps
nass
 
Thanks for the reply...this does not fix the problem. I also noticed that my
fonts are italics in Firefox as well, so this issue may not be isolated to IE.
 
Thanks for the reply...this does not fix the problem. I also noticed that my
fonts are italics in Firefox as well, so this issue may not be isolated to IE.
 
This does not fix the problem either. I also noticed that my fonts are
italics in Firefox as well, so this issue may not be isolated to IE.
 
panterax29 said:
After booting my machine this morning I noticed that most fonts displayed
on Web pages are now in italics. I have not changed any font settings
anywhere - how do I to back to windows default text settings for the
browser? I can't find anywhere to change this in IE or display settings,
is this something that needs to be edited in the registry?
Click to expand...

See: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#italic
http://blogs.dotnethell.it/vincent/Post_1675.aspx
"Tip: Suddenly all the web pages display text in Italics style?".

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Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP - Most Valuable Professional
Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
My Blog: http://blogs.dotnethell.it/vincent/
My Home:
 
Tried copying verdana fonts over from another machine even though the files
were the same...this did not fix it

Thanks...
 
Hi Panter,
Do a Scan for malware and Viruses then try if no luck, Sysytem Restore is
your option.
Hoppe this helps
nass
 
panterax29 said:
Tried copying verdana fonts over from another machine even though the
files were the same...this did not fix it

Thanks...
Click to expand...

You may need to reboot.

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Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP - Most Valuable Professional
Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
My Blog: http://blogs.dotnethell.it/vincent/
My Home:
 
No viruses/spyware on the machine. System restore is not an option on this
specific machine as it has been turned off
 
panterax29 said:
I did reboot...no fix.
Click to expand...

Internet Options -> General tab -> Accessibility button: uncheck everything
there.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/157729/en-us
"How to clear the History entries in Internet Explorer".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260897/en-us
"How to Delete the Contents of the Temporary Internet Files Folder".

Try to re-register the DLL files that are related to Internet Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902932/en-us
Also: http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=24&id=31&artlang=en

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378
"How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
XP".
You will need to uninstall WinXP SP2 from Control Panel -> Add/Remove
Programs and then reinstall Service Pack 2.
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/875350
"How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer".

--
Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP - Most Valuable Professional
Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
My Blog: http://blogs.dotnethell.it/vincent/
My Home:
 
Hi Panter,
Will you be abble to turn Stystem restore On if you would like from my
computer and uncheck the box for turn off Sys Restore or from the RUN Command
prompt by typing this in the Text box :
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe and Click Ok.
Hope this helps
nass
 
Vincenzo said:
Internet Options -> General tab -> Accessibility button: uncheck
everything there.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/157729/en-us
"How to clear the History entries in Internet Explorer".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260897/en-us
"How to Delete the Contents of the Temporary Internet Files Folder".

Try to re-register the DLL files that are related to Internet Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902932/en-us
Also: http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=24&id=31&artlang=en

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378
"How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in
Windows XP".
You will need to uninstall WinXP SP2 from Control Panel -> Add/Remove
Programs and then reinstall Service Pack 2.
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/875350
"How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer".
Click to expand...

Important: then visit immediately Microsoft Windows Update.

--
Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP - Most Valuable Professional
Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
My home:
My Blog: http://blogs.dotnethell.it/vincent/
 
I found the problem...it had nothing to do with IE.

After looking at the webpages that were displaying italics closer I noticed
that they were all set Arial on the font..so the problem was Windows was
substituting something else for the font that should be displayed..basic
Arial.

I changed the entries here:
HKLM/software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/FontSubstitutes/

To match my other machine for the Arial fonts, and all is well.
 
panterax29 said:
I found the problem...it had nothing to do with IE.

After looking at the webpages that were displaying italics closer I
noticed that they were all set Arial on the font..so the problem was
Windows was substituting something else for the font that should be
displayed..basic Arial.

I changed the entries here:
HKLM/software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/FontSubstitutes/

To match my other machine for the Arial fonts, and all is well.
Click to expand...

Thanks for posting back.
Have a nice day.

--
Vincenzo Di Russo
Microsoft® MVP - Most Valuable Professional
Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
My home:
My Blog: http://blogs.dotnethell.it/vincent/
 
I am having the same problem as you had and I followed your advice through
regedit, but how do you change this?

Mike
 
I saw this post and am having the same problem. I was able to follow your
instructions to the point of what to do at
HKLM/software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/FontSubstitutes/.
What does your other machine say (I don't know what to alter here).

Mike
 
Hello Mike,

Simply export the "FontSubstitutes" to a REG file, and post the contents
here. I'll do a registry compare (with the data in my system).

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I saw this post and am having the same problem. I was able to follow your
instructions to the point of what to do at
HKLM/software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/FontSubstitutes/.
What does your other machine say (I don't know what to alter here).

Mike
 
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