Title Bar Text Messed Up - Can't Change Font Size

[tackyjan]

Hello All,

Recently the text on all my windows title bars is messed up. It doesn't show the name of the window, it shows a bunch of dashed lines as follows:



I went to Personalization->Display and I when I try to change the title bar text the menu is empty:



Any idea how I can fix this?

Thank you,

Jan

 

[David Bailey]

You could try sfc & dism & sfc again.

You could right click this .bat file after downloading it & run as administrator---

View attachment dism.bat

It will run them for you.
You can leave it run in the background.
It might take 2 or 3 hours to finish.

 

[davehc]

I see in your picture, that you do not have the the small box checked "Let me choose....etc"??

Unless that is marked, you will not have access to the lists.

 

[topgundcp]

You can try from Control Panel:



EDIT: If it does not work then either some font files are missing or corrupted. You would have to restore to C:\Windows\fonts

 

[David Bailey]

Unless that is marked, you will not have access to the lists.

Unchecked---



Checked---

 

[davehc]

This is what I have
Unchecked (Nothing available)



and checked

 

[David Bailey]

This is what I have
Unchecked (Nothing available)

View attachment 51331

and checked

View attachment 51332

That's weird.
We have the exact opposite results.

The OP has no number options.

I don't understand this at all...

 

[topgundcp]

@DaveHC & David.
On this screen, it also depends on the display capability of the Monitor you are using.
David, I look at your spec, your screen resolution is 1366 X768 so when you check on: Let me choose....", you can only have 2 choices: 100% & 125%
Both my displays have screen resolution of 1920X1200, so I have 4 choices: 100%, 125%, 150% and Extra Large - 200%.



Back to the OP's question, I still think his C:\Windows\fonts folder is missing some fonts or corrupted

 

[David Bailey]

@DaveHC & David.
On this screen, it also depends on the capability of the Monitor you are using.
David, I look at your spec, your screen resolution is 1366 X768 so when you check on: Let me choose....", you can only have 2 choices: 100% & 125%
Both my displays have screen resolution of 1920X1200, so I have 4 choices: 100%, 125%, 150% and Extra Large.

View attachment 51335

I notice in your picture that the Title Bar options are not available like mine when the box is checked.

 

[topgundcp]

I notice in your picture that the Title Bar options are not available like mine when the box is checked.

Correct. Mine is also greyed out.

 

[David Bailey]

I notice in your picture that the Title Bar options are not available like mine when the box is checked.

Correct. Mine is also greyed out.

I have more size options as in the picture---

 

[topgundcp]

What you saw on the screen is what Windows think it will fit with the monitor resolution. Of course, you can customize it but it won't look pretty ie. part of the screen won't be displayed.

 

[David Bailey]

Yep.
Maybe the OP will post back soon.

BTW, I use window blinds to use custom font sizes.

My title bar is set uniquely---