Quickclean Lite and Windows Font

[The Man Who]

McAfee Quickclean Lite has changed my Windows fonts and seem to have removed many of them. I manage to find out that the problem was due to McAfee Quickclean, however everyone seems to just reinstall Windows (Windows XP) however my laptop only came with reload CD, not a full windows install disk and I don't really want to lose everything on my hard drive. Any ideas what I can do, please I really could do with some help!

Thanks in Advance,
Michael

[fireforce555]

Them again huh? I used Mcafee Cleansweep a few years ago and it deleted nearly ALL of my windows fonts as well. Windows looked "Fucked Up". All the lettering was unreadable, I couldnt even navigate windows because I couldnt read anything it said to me. I had to restore my system. Do you have norton ghost and a backup disc, because if you did, you could copy the Fonts folder off the backup disc and just replace the mostly empty one. Also, some other backup tools can do that, but you would need them and a recent backup. If what you have is a restore CD made with ghost, you need norton ghost itself to selectively reinstall something, otherwise it will just wipe the disc and start over.

[The Man Who]

I think all mine can do is wipe the whole disc and I dont have Norton Ghost, Any other ideas?

P.s. Thanks for trying

[fireforce555]

Not really. I tried alot of stuff to when it happened. Can you just back up whatever you need to save and blast the disc clean?



I really wish mcafee would get their stuff together.

[The Man Who]

Yeah, I think May have to, its just as you will be aware so much hassle and I can't really be bothered with taken the time to install all my programs again etc...its like a full days work

Also, would have to setup my Uni LAN again and it really is bother.

[Czar_of_Russia]

For getting out of the default "Marlett" symbol font..

I used "IanRidgers" fix, and it this works!:

When you look in the Windows/fonts folder from Windows explorer you are NOT looking at the folder on the hard disk, you are actually looking at the registry entry. That how you can see the names of the fonts not the file names. Unfortunately Quickclean removes this info from the Registry so you see a blank. Ironically the font files are still there and if you open a DOS window and CD \windows\fonts you can see them. Right, now if you go back to Explorer and ‘reinstall’ the fonts it tries to put them in the registry and put them in the Dir and make them available to windows all that the same time. Somehow it seems to be successful and works for the rest of that session, because Explore has ‘made the fonts available’ to the windows session BUT it has NOT been able to put them in the Registry because the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\softward\Microsoft\windowsNT\cu rrentVersion\fonts] has been deleted by QuickClean and is not there. Consequently if you look at fonts again in Explorer, which is looking at the Registry, there is nothing to see! When you re-start your machine it is looks at the registry to reload the fonts NOT the FONT dir and, as there is nothing in the registry nothing is loaded and you are back to square one. The solution is very very simple! In a dos window copy all your fonts to a new ‘junk’ directory. In dos delete the fonts in c:\windows\fonts (as many as you can anyway). Then, using Regedit.exe (found in Windows dir) open up HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\softward\Microsoft\windowsNT\cu rrentVersion\ and via EDIT/NEW/KEY add the missing ‘Fonts’ entry. Now back to Explorer again and open C:\Windows\fonts and via [File/install new fonts] open your ‘junk’ dir and select all. Once the action has finished you should see all the fonts in explorer and even if you go up a level and come back again they should still be there. If they are you’ve fixed your machine if not then I don’t know!!!!! I admit the biggest difficulty here is that a lot of the activity in Explorer has to be done with graphics rather than letters. I suggest the ‘Junk’ file is named ‘font font’ because you can spot the repetition and you know which one it is!