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Windows 10 Fonts Appearing Garbled After Installing Update

Anonymous
2019-09-30T06:03:28+00:00

Hi,

I have an Alienware 17 R5. Some Windows Updates were installed on my device recently, and they seemed to have corrupted my Windows 10 system font. For instance, this is how some Start menu items appear for me. Microsoft Edge's fonts are all messed up as well (note how some characters appear only partially).

I have run this solution and it said the corrupted files were repaired. But it didn't seem to resolve my problem. Both Windows Update and Alienware Support Center show that I don't have any pending updates. 

What am I doing wrong? I didn't spend premium pricing on this combo of Alienware and Windows 10 to run into these issues? Can anyone help?

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  1. Vijay A. Verma 104.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2019-09-30T06:46:52+00:00

    Hi ARGranger

    Greetings! I am Vijay, an Independent Advisor.

    1. To restore your fonts in Windows 10

    Type control in Cortana search > Control Panel > Fonts > Font Settings > Restore default font settings.

    1. If you don't get respite, you will need to build your font cache.

    https://winaero.com/blog/rebuild-font-cache-win...

    Disclaimer - This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

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  2. Vijay A. Verma 104.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2019-10-02T10:39:33+00:00

    Try removing it in safe mode.

    How to boot in safe mode - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/...

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-02T00:20:54+00:00

    Hi ARGranger

    Greetings! I am Vijay, an Independent Advisor.

    1. To restore your fonts in Windows 10

    Type control in Cortana search > Control Panel > Fonts > Font Settings > Restore default font settings.

    1. If you don't get respite, you will need to build your font cache.

    https://winaero.com/blog/rebuild-font-cache-win...

    Disclaimer - This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

    Hi Vijay,

    Thank you for responding. Unfortunately rebuilding the font cache didn't help. I had tried that before and I tried it once again.

    I went to that "winaero" page as well. I tried removing the font cache files but the system kept telling me it was unable to delete the files as they were already in use by another program. I had stopped the Windows Font Cache service already. I'm not sure what's the issue. The second solution on the "winaero" page was to install a third-party program. I don't want to do that. 

    As of now, my issue remains unresolved and no one from Microsoft itself is heeding to it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-08T09:25:16+00:00

    Try removing it in safe mode.

    How to boot in safe mode - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/...

    Hi,

    I tried booting it in safe mood and removed the Font Cache successfully.

    I restarted my system afterwards, and the issue still persists.

    I'm honestly at a loss of what to do. Microsoft here is so lacking in support that it's infuriating.

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