Help reloading win 8 system fonts

hados

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hi

I have an asus x550L laptop running windows 8.

My system fonts got corrupted somehow and now on the desktop and other areas I can only see boxes and symbols. I may have added in too many duplicate fonts, also I was doing a job for a client with supplied fonts and I may have mistakenly clicked on some file, think it was 'adobe font list.x something'

In C>windows>fonts there are still 4 fonts Terminal Bold and Regular, Fixedsys Regular and System Bold, which I can't delete. There are no previously existing font files on the computer.

I downloaded a clean set of win 8 system fonts and unzipped to my desktop.

I can't replace the the font folder with the one on my desktop and I can't copy and paste the fonts into the folder, it comes up with an error message (which I can't read as it's all boxes etc).

Any ideas? I really don't want to do a refresh. Everything else is fine.

thanks
Hados
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8
I think you can just double click on each font to install it, but not sure.

You could also run sfc /scannow from a Elevated Command Prompt. That should fix any corrupted fonts.

Even better would be to run these in sequence:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
SFC /scannow
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
    CPU
    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP h2207
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050@59Hz
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD;
    2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2;
    1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
    PSU
    500W
    Keyboard
    Wired USB
    Mouse
    Wired USB
    Internet Speed
    3GB Up, 30GB Down
    Browser
    SeaMonkey
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender; MBAM Pro
    Other Info
    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
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