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| We've been getting posts about folks having removed some fonts from Vista and now, they want to restore them. Under XP, you inserted the CD and used the Control Panel to locate the font files and restore them. But under Vista, the DVD doesn't contain individual font files or .CAB files anymore; instead, it contains compressed Windows Image files. So, the procedure is quite different.
However - there is both good news and bad news. Good news is that you can restore the default Windows fonts with a simple command. Bad news is that it's likely to reset your system files back to the state they were in when Vista was first installed, meaning, that there's a risk that ALL windows updates will be lost and have to be reapplied. That's because the operation restores ALL of your Vista system files to their original state, not some of them, and you can't choose which ones to restore.
To do this "fix", you do the following:
1) Open a command window with elevated rights: Enter "cmd" in the start menu, press Ctl-Shift-Enter, click OK on the UAC prompt.
2) In the command window, enter "sfc /scannow". This will scan ALL the windows system files and replace them with the original. It's very likely that it will prompt you to insert the original Vista DVD -- so it can uncompress the original image file and rewrite the system files from that.
The reason I say "very likely" is twofold. First, because I have NOT done this and don't know for sure what it will prompt you for, and second, Vista stores some system stuff when it does the installation. Don't know if it stores enough stuff such that it doesn't require the original DVD to restore the fonts folder.
So, unfortunately, this is a "use at your own risk" activity. Sorry.
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