Strange Font's in WIN 7 ?..

[tony sayer]

Don't know if anyone has any idea on this but if they have be appreciated..

"Someone" has been using my PC and now if I do say a Google search in Firefox all the results come out in a rather high contrast Bold font.

If I do the same search in Google Chrome yet again a differing italic font appears. Some programmes are as they ever where but one or two others are also coming up in differing size fonts and most often in italic's.

Firebox is set to its defaults in options appearances etc, as per what is on another PC here using XP that looks fine as it ever did but the WIN 7 machine its all "wrong".

course no one has admitted doing anything on the machine etc, well they wouldn't would they;!..

So any ideas on how to reset to defaults?. FWIW the default fonts in control panel are set to what Windows thinks best..

Cheers...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Have you gone the EDIT->PREFERENCES->CONTENT->FONTS AND COLOURS->ADVANCED route yet?

That SHOULD allow you to absolutely override any font.

(firefox) not sure about chrome - dont use it.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You can set the font in FireFox Options Content - think the default is Times New Roman, size 16.

[zulu]

No experience of Win7, I'm still on XP, bit it sounds like someone has been playing with *Themes*. Won't *System Restore* fix it?

[Jethro_uk]

Is this all websites ? Something borked Chrome last year, with a result that a lot of forum sites look s**te. But only in Chrome.

[John Rumm]

It may not be the cause of all the things you are seeing, but one simple thing to check is that they have not simply changed the zoom level in firefox, since it remembers your setting for each site. That can make fonts look a bit different. Hold the Ctrl key and press 0 to return to default zoom. (or use + or - or the mouse wheel to shift sizes up and down)

[Paul Drahn]

I had that same problem crop up on the HSM web site. I tried the CTRL-0 and it restored everything back to normal. I will try to remember the trick if I encounter it again.

Thanks, Paul

[tony sayer]

In article , tony sayer scribeth thus

Thanks to all who replied. As far as I could make out the themes were as they were, zoom as it was and Firefox defaults were as they should be.

However did a three day rollback and mysteriously all is now as it should be:)

Nipper been given a suitable rollicking;!...

cheers...

[Brian Morrison]

Create a separate user account and this won't happen to you...

[Huge]

Give the little sod his own machine, with no admin access.

[tony sayer]

In article , Brian Morrison scribeth thus

Well it was a visitors child who saw this nice PC and thought no one would mind as she at a very early age is an expert on computers according to her mum;!...

[John Williamson]

Just the kind of user the Guest account is ideal for.

[Phil W Lee]

tony sayer considered Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:00:53

+0000 the perfect time to write:

And what about the person who left the machine in a state that the nipper could play with it?

[tony sayer]

In article , Phil W Lee scribeth thus

Well thats in a bit of the manor where no one normally goes, called the daddy sanctuary....

SWMBO decided to show some visitors in there and whist they were talking the "modification work" was carried out 'tho Christ knows what she actually did;!...

[Tim Ward]

So who, other than you, knows your password then??

(My family have guessed mine, but they know that I will be exceedingly displeased if they abuse it. Less trouble to avoid the risk by logging in as themselves.)

[tony sayer]

As said Tim hardly anyone goes in there expect the grumble about the mess etc..

The rest of the crew here have their own machines, they'd have no reason to play about with this one except this little miss;!....

[Robert Baer]

WHAT belongs to "font"??

[John Rumm]

Point size and case obviously

[tony sayer]

Waah!, This is a tad ongoing now but it seems that the default fonts were all set as windows intended them to be ..

Anyways we rolled it back a few days restored, and all is well now whatever the original cause was...