Fonts appearing as boxes on windows 98

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Fonts appearing as boxes in Windows 98 are often caused by incompatible font files copied from Windows XP. Users should verify the integrity of the fonts using the Character Map tool, as corrupted files may not display correctly. A recommended solution is to restore the original Windows 98 fonts from a backup, if available. Additionally, formatting the system can resolve persistent font issues, as suggested by user dduardo.

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I got problems with fonts showing up as boxes. I recently copied all of my fonts from windows xp into the fonts directory in windows 98. Thats all I can think of that would be the problem. But going through and looking at the fonts with character map, none of them are screwed up. Does anyone know about fixing this?

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Does anyone know about fixing this?
To quote dduardo “Try formatting. It always seems to fix window's problems.”
You’ve got to admit, he’s not lying.

If you thought to make a backup copy of the 98 fonts folder you could try restoring it, then checking to see if the problem was cured.

There may be an easy cure for this but I haven’t played with my fonts enough to know what it could be.

Good luck
 

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