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Something happened today which caused all system dialog boxes to change the font they use to something that is almost unreadable. The link below is a snip from the System Properties dialog which shows the small text:

https://i.sstatic.net/gGW2b.jpg

Note that the window title is readable.

The Window Color and Appearance dialog does not allow me to change it. I can change the theme to "Basic" or any other built-in theme and it still displays incorrectly. I have another user account on this computer and that user account behaves the same way.

How can I fix this?

slhck
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Mike
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Go to Control Panel -> Personalization -> Window Color -> Advanced appearance settings.

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Go through each item in the Item drop-down and see if anything has a very low Size set in the Font section.

Scott Chamberlain
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Check the answer given on this page - it should solve your problem.

Check the values MS Shell Dlg and MS Shell Dlg 2 the following registry key: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes

On my machine, the values are:

  • MS Shell Dlg has the value of Microsoft Sans Serif,
  • MS Shell Dlg 2 has the value of 'Tahoma'.

Expanding on the purpose of these keys: They allow applications to avoid hard-coding font names for use in dialogs; the system fonts to be changed as necessary to support non-English character sets.

Alexey Ivanov
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Geoff
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Access other computer, go to Control Panel> Font, copy all fonts and paste them to your computer at the same path. Every font is ok. Sure!

Heo Xinh
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Mike, Download and install Tahoma font from following link http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/Tahoma/ It will solve your problem. Nebo

Nebo
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