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Draheid
| Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 12:33 am
Whoami: To install a font on Windows/XP, first you must obtain the font(s) you want to install and save then into a directory to install from. Then open Windows Explorer and browse to 'Control Panel - Fonts' where you will see the currently installed fonts. Now click on 'File - Install New Font...' option. Locate the directory where the fonts you wish to install are located and select those there. Be sure to check 'Copy fonts to Fonts folder' near the bottom of the screen and then click 'Ok'. That should make them available to you in any installed application that uses the standard Windows fonts. The most likely reason you seem to be 'missing' some fonts is because many programs you may have installed on your old computer added to the fonts available in other programs. Hope that helps. Happy Holidays.
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Mygetaway
| Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 2:35 am
Who.. dumb question, but did you have any card making cd's or anything that you might not have reinstalled after you switched computers? I had one of those 9.99 cd's from Walmart that added all kinds of fonts that I didn't have before.
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Juju2bigdog
| Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 10:25 am
Not such a dumb question, Mygetaway. Pretty smart, actually. Who, I think I have a CD of fonts around here somewhere. Want me to send it to you? If so, e-mail me. IF I can find it of course.
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Dipo
| Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 5:23 pm
i think I have a big problem. Yesterday I spilled coke on my laptop. Fortunately I had a piece of paper sitting on it and that took most of the hit, but a little bit got into the keyboard on the left side, where the caps lock, shift, etc keys are. Now the computer types by itself, whenever I hit the Right shift key, it beeps at me and a message about StickyKeys keeps coming up. I am on my work computer typing this as I cannot compose a message on my laptop. It works find if I do not have to type and can just use the Mouse. Any ideas on how to solve this one??? ARe there people I can hire to fix it for me??? Thanks for your help.
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Whoami
| Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 5:28 pm
Thanks for the advice Dra & Juju. MGA, not a DQ at all. All I remember was my old computer had more fonts on it. I assumed it was through Office2000. Reading here, it looks like it was Win98. I haven't had a chance at all to delve into this since that post. But I will try checking it out tonight. That CD of fonts would be great Juju! I'll e-mail you in a bit here.
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Juju2bigdog
| Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 7:13 pm
Whoami, just checked my Windows ME Fonts folder. It has 358 fonts. I bet your XP has that many. Well, sheesh! That is a lot isn't it? Okay, I am going to leave that one alone. I don't NEED to go messing with it. The forty or so I have in Word are more than enough. (hmmmmmmmm, 358 ...) Whoami, just checked - I do have the CD of fonts. It is handwriting fonts, AND it is for Windows 95, LOL. May or may not work for you, but you are welcome to it.
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Whoami
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 4:51 am
Hmmmm...OK. So now I just need to figure out where in XP to find those fonts! Just to make sure, since I posted after Dipo...I want to call everyone's attention back to her post. I don't want her to end up accidentally ignored!
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 8:32 am
Dipo: Depending on your level of comfort working with computers, you should be able to clean the keyboard yourself or you should be able to find a service center near you by checking the yellow pages or checking online. Call around asd ask who can do the work necessary and pricing for the work. Compare and be sure to get details of warranty, etc. To do the job yourself, 1st make sure the laptop is off, the batteries are removed, everything is disconnected from the main computer. Next look carefully at the keys, there should be sufficient space to get a slim object such as a small screwdriver under the edge of the key and pry up gently - they will usually just 'pop' out of place for you. *IF* it does not seem to work by gentle prying, then I would recommend you pass on doing it yourself and seek professional assistance. If you do get the keytop to come off, there may be another small rubber-like piece under that, then the circuit board should be under that. You need to clean anything you find from the circuit board by using a cotton swab and denatured alcohol (such as you find for cleaning tape heads, etc. on VCRs, or cassette players - you can buy it at Radio Shack). I also suggest you swab the rubber piece as well to remove any residue that might be there. Once you are confident the pieces are clean and DRY, replace them in the reverse order they came out. Then move to the next key, etc. Hope this helps.
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 8:35 am
Whoami: You should look in the 'Control Panel' for 'Fonts' on Windows/XP. Either click 'Start - Settings - Control Panel - Fonts' or open windows explorer, tell it to display folders if not already there, then click on the 'Control Panel' folder on the left, then 'Fonts' to browse the font directory. btw: I currently have 412 fonts installed, keeping in mind that some are variations of the same font, such as bold, italics, both, etc. as well as possibly different size groups. Hope this helps.
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Lumbele
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 12:28 pm
Dipo, DH found this site Laptop Cleaning. It may be something to bookmark for those with laptops.
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Nathalia
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 1:05 pm
Draheid....I have a problem...my computer is only about 6 months old it is a Pentium 4 with Windows XP on it...it has been slow since the day I bought it. And lately I have been getting messages saying that the virtual memory is low and that I cannot run other programs because of this problem. Do you know how I can correct this and get the computer to run faster?
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Juju2bigdog
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 3:11 pm
Cassie, unless you are running out of hard drive space, I'd just leave both ZoneAlarm and Adaware on the machine. Both are excellent programs that help protect your computer. You also want to get a good anti-virus program on there and keep it updated if you don't already have one. If your computer starts doing screwy things, first thing you want to do is run a virus scan. Then run Adaware. Then come here and ask questions if the problem persists and it wasn't a virus or spyware. If you have a new computer, you probably aren't running out of hard drive space. If you have an older machine, here is how to check. (The terminology might be slightly different for Windows XP, which I don't have, but you can probably figure out what I mean.) Double-click on My Computer (icon looks like a little computer monitor). Then when that window opens, right click on C:; choose Properties. It will show you a pie chart with how big your hard drive is, how much is used, how much is free. Nathalia, Draheid will come along and tell you the other technical stuff, but for starters run a virus scan on your computer. You may have read up above that I was getting resources low messages, and it was a virus. If you don't have an anti-virus program, look back further in this thread where I told about finding some free ones online. Use that for now and then buy one immediately, which you either do online or by going to your nearest Office Max, Office Depot, Staples, etc.
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Whoami
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 3:24 pm
OK, so I found my fonts folder. I have 167 fonts installed (including of course the variations in bold, italic, etc). Now, I remember in Win98, if I wanted to add in features that weren't installed by the mfg, I'd go to Add/Remove Windows components and chose what I wanted to add there. But I don't see anywhere that fonts are a part of this. Also, I don't know about that disk that came with the computer. Its not a full fledged WinXP disk. Its just a disk to get my computer back to its starting point should I have to reformat. I guess that's what Dell and other mfg's do now or something. So I guess I just have to find my own fonts somewhere, right? I know one of the ones I was looking for was Algerian (or something like that), that I wanted to use for my bil's Christmas note (inside his gift).
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Cassie
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 3:43 pm
Thanks, Juju! I have 248 mb's of space left on memory. It doesn't look like a lot on the pie chart! I use a program called "Housecalls" to run virus checks--do you think I still need to buy an anti-virus program?
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Halfunit
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 3:52 pm
Call me simple, but can't you find all of your fonts by doing a file search with the * variable? Find files: *.fnt or *.fon
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Nathalia
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 3:53 pm
Thanks Juju for the information..I will do that and see what I come up with until I hear from Draheid too. Thanks again!
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Nathalia
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 4:23 pm
I have Norton Anti-Virus Software on my computer and the last time it scanned was on 12/26 and there were no viruses. I checked and I also have a huge amount of disk space left. So I'm not sure what is causing the problem. Except maybe the Kazaa software I have loaded on there??? Shhh..I only used it once or twice
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Grannyg
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:00 pm
Dra, since you have your thinking cap on, think on this: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : unknown exception code occurred at PC=0x7800adef Function name=(N/A) Library=(N/A) NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible reason and solutions. Current Java thread: at sun.plugin.javascript.ocx.JSObject.nativeInvoke(Native Method) at sun.plugin.javascript.ocx.JSObject.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.javascript.ocx.JSObject.call(Unknown Source) at o.run(DashoA8464) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Dynamic libraries: 0x7D2A0000 - 0x7D2CD000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DBGHELP.DLL Local Time = Sat Dec 27 14:55:30 2003 Elapsed Time = 304 # # The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.3.1_04-b02 mixed mode) # Ok, I got this error yesterday and my puter has been feeling sick ever since. I ran Virus Scan and no virus and ran Ad-aware and it found like 15 files and I deleted all of them. Any idea what any of this means?
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:07 pm
Nathalia: I recommend you download, install, and run Ad-aware on your computer. I'm sure it will tell you that your Kazaa has also installed some spyware or adware software and that is most likely what is consuming the resources on your computer. You can find this at Lavasoftusa.com. I have heard that Kazaa Lite is less obtrusive on your computer but still uses some resources. If you don't need it at all, I recommend removing Kazaa completely in addition to running the Ad-aware program.
Simple: Most of the fonts on Win/XP use the extension of .ttf for TrueType Font. Searching the hard drive for fonts won't usually turn up any that aren't already installed though.
Whoami: Most manufacturers these days create a hidden partition on your hard drive and place an image of your hard drive as it was at the factory which the recovery CD will use to recreate the system as it was when you first purchased it. You can usually order a complete restore CD set from the company for a nominal fee which would be required in the event of a complete hard drive failure or they would probably just replace the hard drive with the system pre-installed if it's under warranty. As for additional fonts, there are many ways to get them, some may be downloaded, others are included with various software packages (usually only those on CDs rather then downloaded to save on download time), etc. I have lots of software installed on my system from MS Office 2000 to Pinnacle Studio (digital video edit software) to PaintShop Pro 8.0, all of which have probably added to the font collection I have now. One thing you might consider is using Google to locate +free +font +download sites and see if you can locate some useful fonts that way.
Hope this helps.
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:16 pm
Grannyg: Interesting report! lol Can you describe exactly what you were running at the time this error occurred? Have you tried running the same program/function after rebooting the computer and had different results?? Let me know and I'll be happy to pursue a solution for you.
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Nathalia
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:25 pm
Thanks Draheid! I will try this and let you know how it goes. I do not need the Kazaa software and I did try to restore my computer to an earlier date but I also had AOL software on there and it took that off also... so I was waiting to see what your solution was. Thanks again for your help!
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Halfunit
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:25 pm
Bwah hah hah hah.... call me stupid (don't!), but it took me a while to figure out who Simple was. Not all of my font files are together in one folder - I was under the impression that the Whoster just couldn't find all of hers, lol. **picture Emily Latella** "Nevermind!"
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Grannyg
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:27 pm
I was browsing ebay. And all of a sudden IE disappeared and that little thingie came up!! You know when things just disappear it kinda gives you the willies and I thought what the heck? But now I keep getting that dreaded blue screen that says my system is busy and I can hit any key and wait or C/A/D to restart. I usually hit any key and when it comes back I restart the puter. But sometimes it just hangs and I have to pushed the dreaded button on the hard drive and when I reboot it takes scandisk about 10 or 15 mins. to go through everything. I even ran Norton Utilities to see if anything showed up there and nothing. Any thing you can find would be greatly appreciated. You know I can always come up with the most profound things!! Just to increase your knowledge.
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 5:51 pm
Grannyg: Sun isn't very friendly about explaining what the latest version of their software is but my best 'guess' is that you have a slightly older version. Possibly upgrading to the latest version would help your situation. You can download it directly from Sun at java.sun.com and install that. An alternative for testing, if you're interested in playing with it, you can disable Sun Java VM and enable Microsft VM with these instructions from Sun: Instructions for switching between the Microsoft VM and the Sun JVM using Internet Options:
1. Open Control Panel by clicking Start->Settings->Control Panel 2. Open the Internet Options window by double clicking Internet Options 3. Click the Advanced Tab 4. Find the "Java (Sun)" item and check or uncheck the checkbox which says "Use Java 2 v 1.4.x for applet (requires restart)" 5. Check or uncheck the box next to Microsoft VM 6. Save your changes by clicking the OK button 7. Restart the browser Let me know if this helps. You might also want to check for trojan or spyware installed accidentally on your computer as that seems to be a prevailing issue lately as you can see previously in this thread. Hope this helps.
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Juju2bigdog
| Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 6:11 pm
Cassie, 248 Mb left on your computer is not very much. Quite frankly, it would make me uneasy to have that little left. Run through that procedure I told you again and see how big your hard drive is total. (Draheid, her original question was whether or not she should keep Zone Alarm and Adaware installed on her computer or uninstall them) You might want to take a look at what stuff you have on your computer and see if there is anything you no longer use that can be uninstalled. To see what programs you have installed on your computer, go to Start (bottom left of your screen), then Settings, then Control Panel, then Add/Remove programs. If you have something on there that you don't know what it is, go to www.google.com and type in the name, or come here and ask about it.
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