I just built a new system and installed Win XP and everything was working well until I decided to take a shortcut installing the fonts from my old system to my new system. I deleted everything in the /fonts folder on the new system and then copied all of the fonts from my Win Home Server backup to my new system. Of course this caused me some big problems because the words on my desktop and everywhere else showed up as garbage. I thought I could fix the font problem by running the font folder fix program from TweakUI and so I ran it I thought I had everything fixed.
But then I started to install a couple of new programs and that's where my new "posible Dr Watson trojan" problems started. When the install program would start the font on the install screens was so small it could not be read, even using a magnifier program. After the install was complete I got an error saying Win Explorer need to be closed because an error had occurred. When Win Exp would close then I would get the Dr Watson debugger screens but the fonts on the screen were so huge I could not read all of the screen.
I finally rebooted and after using Win Explorer for a few minutes I would get the error message saying Win Explorer needed to close (this message also used the same huge fonts), it would close and I would get the Dr Watson screens again and again the font was so huge I couldn't read it all.
I've run Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D from the safe mode and also Spyware Terminator and Ad-Aware from my normal windows. Win Explorer has not thrown it's error yet and the Dr Watson screens haven't popped up yet but I still am having a problem with install programs having ultra small fonts and then after they install some of the screens that come up to finish the install will have the huge fonts which makes it impossible to see everything on the screen.
I've done the HiJack This scan and I have a log file to display if I need to do so.
Does anyone have any idea as to what this problem might be, BTW, I've checked the font sizes being used in my Win XP screen setups and they all seem OK.
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