[Win7] Fresh install - Control Panel - Fonts will not display anything


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Everything is up to date. And what the heck is Aharoni Bold and all the other fonts? I only installed Visual Studio 2010, XNA, Camtasia Studio, Steam, World of Warcraft, and Filezilla. All of those are also installed on my other system right next to me and that system does not have those fonts.

Open an elevated command prompt and type

sfc /scannow

Let it scan and see if any system files get repaired, if they do, you either have a corrupted install disk, or other problems

Also run a disk check on C:\

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.

Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

C:\Windows\system32>

What else do you think it is. Do you think my HDD could be messing up?

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.

Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

C:\Windows\system32>

What else do you think it is. Do you think my HDD could be messing up?

Not necessarily, but worth a scan anyway, it could be a duff install, happens sometimes, but also could be one of the programs you installed interfering - do the disk scan, then I would uninstall programs backwards in the order you installed them and each time reboot and check again

Google around to see if its a possible BootCamp related issue. Just a thought.

I missed that, well spotted

Is it possible you have managed to get some malware on there ?

It sounds more like a duff install, that is a massive memory leak, have you had it running before with the same windows 7 media on the same machine ?

Im not familiar with bootcamp installs so if it is a mac issue...

Its possible, but did you try uninstalling all the programs you installed right after Windows 7 ?

Try booting in safemode and see if it still does it

Like I say, I dont know anything about bootcamp, but is there an updated version of that you can install too ?

All I can think then is a corrupted install, I know its a pain in the ass reinstalling, but its the only way I think your going to be able to know - but burn another DVD too, on the slowest speed.

Weird that sfc would come back clean though if that was true, a driver conflict maybe ? But safe mode should fix that too

  • 4 months later...

I am still having this issue after I did windows updates, can anybody help at all? I did several clean installs and several hard drives but nothing seems to fix the issue. When I go to the fonts folder, explorer.exe uses 3-5GB of ram. I tried searching for the issue, but nobody seems to be having this issue but me.

Edit: I let it sit for several minutes and it is working now. Could a Windows Update delete a "cache" or something of the fonts, so it will need to scan again? Does having three hard drives connected make this scan incredibly slow? Now when I restart, it comes up instantly, so did it need to scan all three hard drives to create a "cache" of the fonts? I do not know what else would be making it slow.

Yes I am running anti virus. And like I said, I tried several clean installs and several different hard drives which causes the same issue. It cannot be a malware infection if I tried all those. I edited the earlier post:

Edit: I let it sit for several minutes and it is working now. Could a Windows Update delete a "cache" or something of the fonts, so it will need to scan again? Does having three hard drives connected make this scan incredibly slow? Now when I restart, it comes up instantly, so did it need to scan all three hard drives to create a "cache" of the fonts? I do not know what else would be making it slow.

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