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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 8:35 am
Bigd: I'm not sure how you can 'lose' a font file once it has been installed on your computer. Are you having problems with the default font settings in certain programs? Are there suddenly fewer fonts available for selection when trying to change font in a program? Any more information would be helpful.
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 8:45 am
It's a big mess here Dra. For instance, on this screen I can read the body of the messages, the name of the poster, but I can barely make out the date, time, description under the poster name and the date they became a member. If I go into control panel under "Fonts" I only have - Courier 10, 12, 15; MS Sans Serif 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24; MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24; Small Fonts; and Symbol 8,10,12,14,18,24. That's it. I know that a font was corrupted or something happened last week with my son, but I just can't tell you what it was since I wasn't there. He thought he could fix it and now this is where I am. I know I could reinstall Windows98, but I don't want to loose anything on my hard drive.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 9:58 am
Bigd: The fonts you see in the fonts folder are the basic fonts included with Windows. If you had more fonts before, they were most likely installed by some software you installed. Try this: In control panel, open "Display Properties" and click on the 'Appearance' tab. Select a theme such as Windows Default and see if that doesn't restore the settings. Next you can try loading additional fonts from any software CDs you have either by re-installing the program or look for the font files on the CD and have Windows install them for you. When installing fonts, if there is an option to 'Copy fonts to font directory' (or something similar), be sure to select that as you install the fonts. Let me know if this helps.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 10:04 am
Hi Draheid Yesterday, a little box popped up saying I wasn't using some of my desktop icons & they could be moved to a desktop folder. I said ok. I should have left the Norton Anti-virus out of it but it got transferred too. Anyway, a friend installed it for me about two weeks ago & it had an option called Internet Lock. Well now, since I've retrieved it from the folder the option has disappeared. I've opened the pertinent pages and looked under options and even in the index, but no trace of it unfortunately. Has the Lock gone to 'Puter Heaven?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 10:10 am
rupertbear, they should be in a folder on your desktop called "unused desktop icons". i assume you are using windows xp, because it's the only operating system i've seen use that. also, just because an icon is moved, doesn't mean the program isn't running. norton runs down in your system tray. (that's on the system toolbar on the bottom of your screen). the icons were transferred to the folder because you haven't clicked on those icons for a specific period of time.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 11:21 am
Rupertbear: I am not familiar with the 'Internet Lock' function of Norton. As landi described, and you've apparently already discovered, you can move the icon back from the folder to your desktop. There should not have been any change made when Windows moved the icon into the folder originally. The only program I'm aware of that has the Internet Lock function is ZoneAlarm firewall. Could your friend have installed that at the same time and the option you are looking for is there instead? Hope this helps.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 1:44 pm
Oh my heck!!! Do I feel like a total doof! Landi...thanks And Draheid *gulp* I am embarrassed but happy to say, that feature IS on the ZoneAlarm. You are right, he did install it, then I got the two of them confused. I am so computer illiterate. Thank you for your help.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 2:06 pm
thanks Juju. 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 6:24 pm
OK, I suspect that many "free trial" softwares have some sort of imbedded file to keep you from re-downloading something once the trial is up. Case in point for me, I haven't been able to use PhotoShop Pro for a long time. Even when I uninstall it, and re-download it, it will tell me my trial period is up. So obviously it hides some files in here somewhere so I can't just keep re-downloading it. Now, I have two games that I downloaded, and ended up with license codes from somewhere that were actually pirated (don't ask ). So, I went to the game maker's site and purchased my own license codes. But when I uninstall/redownload the games, the old license code still shows up. Does any computer savvy person know where they might hide these files, so I can get rid of them? I want these games licensed in my name!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, April 12, 2004 - 9:25 pm
Whoami: Most likely the information is embedded in a 'key' written into the Windows registry, probably under some obscure name/title that only the manufacturer would know. To locate the old codes and remove them would require knowledge of the exact key used. For example, I happen to have discovered that one vendor used their name spelled backwards and with spaces between each letter as their 'key' to hold the license information. That was a rather 'lame' means of trying to protect their software but for most folks, it was effective enough. Perhaps you could do one of three things: 1.) Continue to use the existing key knowing you have a licensed legal right to the software anyway. 2.) Scour their support section for information about how to re-enter your registration key. 3.) Contact them directly and make up an explanation about how you mistyped the key or someone else installed it, etc. and now you're trying to correct it but can't find a way to do so. There is a 4th possibility but I strongly discourage this. You could search for information on hacking the programs and use the reverse of that info to remove the incorrect information from your system. In all cases, please be sure to set a restore point on your computer before you proceed to do anything to change the registry just in case something goes awry with the process. Good luck. I hope this helps. PS: This is the same thing you're encountering with trialware programs. They also install an obscure key into your registry and leaves it even if you uninstall the program before the expiration.
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 8:04 am
Ok, I am back with the same stupid problem. Any further advise about what to do about my font situation? They are still a mess. Every time I reboot, I loose the font setting and any webpage I try to read is a mess - I solve this by simply going into "Font" in Control Panel and select one - I must be missing the "default font" or something since it doesn't retain a setting and I can't seem to find a place where you can select a "default setting". For instance, I go into "Internet Options" in Internet Explorer and on the "General Page" you can select "Fonts", but I have nothing - apparently the default is "Latin" but there are no fonts to choose from under ANY selection. When I go into "Fonts" in Control Panel, I only have [Courier 10,12,15; MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24; MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24; Small Fonts; Symbols 8,10,12,14,18,24]. These are "A" type fonts and there are allot of those "A" type fonts listed in this link here that are missing - there are no "True Type" fonts listed at all. I don't want to try the thing I did before (at this link here since it turned out so badly before. Any suggestions?
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 8:22 am
BigD- in your internet exporer, click on "View", then go down to "Text Size" and click a larger setting than what it currently set. Is this a problem in other programs also? or just internet?
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 8:26 am
Also BigD, in your font folder see if you have the following fonts installed Verdana,Arial,Helvetica
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 8:42 am
Thanks Zachsmom! Changing the text size under view in IE didn't do anything for me. It is a problem all over my computer - not just in IE. When I go into "Fonts" in Control Panel, I only have [Courier 10,12,15; MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24; MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24; Small Fonts; Symbols 8,10,12,14,18,24]. These are the only fonts on my computer. I am looking for a way to reinstall the Windows 98se default fonts - I have a bunch missing now (after my adventure with the advise from the link I listed previously).
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 8:46 am
BigD: Here are a couple of articles that may be helpful. The first lists all fonts that are installed initially on Windows/98 and the second describes how to fix some font problems you may encounter. And the third link describes how to extract the original fonts from your Windows CD. Note: All of the Windows default fonts have the file extension of either .fon or .ttf - when extracting the files, you should use *.ttf and *.fon for the files to extract. List of installed fonts Cannot Add or View Fonts, Windows Reports an Incorrect Number of Installed Fonts HOW TO: Extract Original Compressed Windows Files Hope this helps.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 8:51 am
Okay, Draheid took care of it.
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Littlec
Member
11-14-2003
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 11:39 am
I am using windows me and use a cable modem. Twice in the last 2 days while I was online I lost my internet connection. Both times I have rebooted my computer and when I do this I find out that my cable modem is being installed during the reboot. So apparently my modem was uninstalled all by itself. I have run norton virus scan and house call and no viruses were found. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 12:53 pm
Littlec: I don't believe your cablemodem is uninstalling itself. More likely is that you have the cablemodem connected through a USB port and when you lose the connection, the modem resets to a different configuration (IP address) which Windows presumes is a new configuration. It doesn't sound like you have anything to worry about on the computer itself. I would contact the cable company to verify this and to find out why the signal is dropping in the first place. Hope this helps.
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Littlec
Member
11-14-2003
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 1:02 pm
I do have it connected thru a USB port and I contacted the cable company and they told me that they have detected a weak signal coming from the modem and are going to bring out a new one to replace it. Thanks for your help Dra.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:49 pm
I) I seem to have an intermittent stalling problem. Usually it only happens once or twice a month but this week it happened both yesterday and today so I thought I would ask you wise people about it. I have win98 operating on super athlon 1100 with only 128MB of RAM and a 40GB Hard drive. My computer stalls in three different ways: 1) When I turn the computer on, as the system loads it will get as far as my wallpaper (ie I can see my wallpaper but no icons , no sys tray etc) then it stalls/stops. Nothing more happens no matter how long I wait. I end up getting impatient and hitting reset. It then goes through the scan and restarts and all is fine. This is what happened yesterday and today 2) sometimes it stalls when I shut down. This happens seldom but once in a while it will stall after shutting down everything except the wallpaper. Other times (eg yesterday) it will shut down until the monitor is black but the hard drive NEVER shuts off. Yesterday I had to hold down the power button until the system shut down. 3) Sometimes it will stall when I am working on the computer. I have the sys tray set up so that a coloured line shows me CPU usage. Whenever it stalls while I am using the computer, the CPU usage line is at 100%. However I do NOT get any message from the computer telling me to shut anything down or that resources are a problem. I have just learned that , if I wait patiently, in about 20 or 30 seconds, the sys will just do what ever I asked and the CPU line will fall back. I have no idea why this (or any of the other types of) stalling happens. I asked a computer tech once and he told me it was just win98, that win98 was famous for repeated stalling. Is this true?? II) ALSO..a totally unrelated problem but I might as well pose it now while I am thinking about it. This is a problem that started as soon as I hooked up to high speed cable. I NEVER had this problem with dialup or DSL. Ever since going on cable, I now have to actually shut the power off to my computer when I shut down (shut the power off on the hard drive behind the unit). If I do not shut the power off, at sometime within the next hour or two after shutting down, the computer will just start itself back up all by itself! What's that all about???? Sorry to ask so many questions but I am hopefully you can ease some of my frustrations  
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:14 pm
Hi Jan, Your first 3 problems sound like your computer is managing the swap file when these 'freeze' problems occur. What is happening is Windows is probably resizing your swap file for you either because it no longer needs the space or it needs more. My recommendations are: 1) More memory - always good to have more memory as it does make the computer run better. 2) Change Virtual Memory to a 'fixed' size so that you don't have Windows trying to wear out your hard drive unnecessarily by resizing the file all the time. As for your computer restarting automatically, you probably have a setting in the CMOS setup that tells the system to 'Wake On LAN' meaning, anytime the cablemodem sends a message to the network card it is connected to, the computer interprets that as a signal to 'wake up'. You should be able to disable this feature by going into setup when you first power up the computer and locate the feature for 'Wake on LAN' (keywords to look for), disable the feature, then save the settings and restart the computer. If you are not familiar with how to set a fixed swap file, let me know and I'll post you the 'instructions' to print and perform. Hope this helps.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:31 pm
dra - please read your emails.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:34 pm
Draheid...please know...I am in TOTAL awe of you! 
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:45 pm
landi: Just did and replied - but for faster results, try these: http://www.gifworks.com (Only handles .gif files) http://www.myimager.com (Also handles .jpg files) Thank you, Rupertbear. I'm just happy I can help when I can. 
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:56 pm
thank you thank you thank you! dra - do you think we can put these on the "help" page where it talks about uploading graphics and how to format? it might be really helpful for other people too! btw. everything looks gorgeous!
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