xWhiplash Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It has been stuck on that for 10 minutes now. This is a fresh install with all my apps installed. Does anybody know what is going wrong? If I go to C:\Windows\Fonts, I get this instantly: Is Control Panel - Fonts scanning all of my drives for fonts? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Cancel it, log off, log on / or reboot, then try again Is search indexer running ? And did you install a million fonts ? Or just go here C:\Windows\Fonts Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 I tried that several times. Check my post above, I edited it with more information. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I`ll leave this open to someone else, I have no idea unless its a bug Have you fully updated Windows 7 and install the SP1 yet ? If not, perhaps one of the updates will fix it Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Yea I have a pretty fresh install too and Aharoni Bold is there with other Arabic looking fonts too Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Now C:\Windows\Fonts is not working :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 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:\ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 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? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Laughing Man Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Google around to see if its a possible BootCamp related issue. Just a thought. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 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 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Scanned, did a clean boot, and still no success. I disabled all the apple services from running. Nobody reported anything similar with Bootcamp. Do you have any other ideas? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593782814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Okay if I go to C:\Windows\Fonts or Control Panel - Fonts and let it sit for 15 minutes, explorer.exe reaches 7GB of RAM usage. Does that help any? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 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... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 I just purchased Windows 7 Ultimate online from MS and downloaded the ISO. I burned it to one of my unused DVD-R. There is no malware on it I scanned numerous times. Could it be the DVD-R I used? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 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 ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Bootcamp is up to date, I tried in safe mode and it did not work, and I tried uninstalling things. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 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 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Fresh install with a new DVD and without any windows updates seems to be instant. How much memory does your explorer.exe use? Mine is using about 25-30MB Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-593783622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-594167436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryten Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Are you running any anti-virus software on it? Also install and run Malwarebytes. There are such things as drive-by installs. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-594167456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-594167462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 Can anybody help? I made a video to see if you can get a better idea. http://phstudios.com/videos/fontsissue/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-594179506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ33 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Can anybody help? I made a video to see if you can get a better idea. http://phstudios.com...eos/fontsissue/ did you download the iso or (.box files) from the digitalriver? if not, where did you get the iso? did you use an activator? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-594179528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWhiplash Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 Downloaded the ISO straight from the Microsoft Store online. I also did a clean install when the official Microsoft discs came in the mail. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/982064-win7-fresh-install-control-panel-fonts-will-not-display-anything/#findComment-594179530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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