Windows 98 suddenly lost tab labels

[Old Geezer]

My neighbor has a Windows 98 machine, which she uses for e-mail and also for
children's games for her granddaughter, who is about four. Since the last
time the little girl played with the computer, it has lost all the usual tab
labels. The Start button no longer says "Start," the minimize, maximize and
close buttons in the upper right of any program window are now completely
blank, so are the five tabs in Display Properties, and so on. Every kind of
tab label is missing. Restarting the machine doesn't bring anything back.
Needless to say, no one knows what the little girl did, if anything (she
says she shut down the machine as she always does).

Anyone have any idea what's going on here and/or how to restore the labels?
I'm at a complete loss, have never seen anything like this before.

N.

[Bill Blanton]

"Old Geezer" > wrote in message ...
> My neighbor has a Windows 98 machine, which she uses for e-mail and also for children's games for her granddaughter, who is about
> four. Since the last time the little girl played with the computer, it has lost all the usual tab labels. The Start button no
> longer says "Start," the minimize, maximize and close buttons in the upper right of any program window are now completely blank,
> so are the five tabs in Display Properties, and so on. Every kind of tab label is missing. Restarting the machine doesn't bring
> anything back. Needless to say, no one knows what the little girl did, if anything (she says she shut down the machine as she
> always does).
>
> Anyone have any idea what's going on here and/or how to restore the labels? I'm at a complete loss, have never seen anything like
> this before.

Sounds like she may have deleted some fonts. C:\Windows\Fonts\Marlett.ttf,
for one, is responsible for the min/max/restore button graphics. Check
the appearance tab (3rd one from the left) in display properties. In the
"Item" drop-down find "Active Title Bar". Click it and check the Font
listed below. That one is responsiblre for the Start button also.

Use SFC to extract the missing fonts and direct it to put them in
\Windows\Fonts. Then reboot. If you want, I can give you a list of
fonts I have installed in a "default" Windows setup, so you can
see what else may be missing.

[Alan Edwards]

Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab.
Change the item: 3D Objects to a contrasting color as she has changed
it to match the objects, e.g. if the Start button, tabs and controls
are grey, then she has changed 3D Objects to grey instead of black.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, "Old Geezer"
> wrote:

>My neighbor has a Windows 98 machine, which she uses for e-mail and also for
>children's games for her granddaughter, who is about four. Since the last
>time the little girl played with the computer, it has lost all the usual tab
>labels. The Start button no longer says "Start," the minimize, maximize and
>close buttons in the upper right of any program window are now completely
>blank, so are the five tabs in Display Properties, and so on. Every kind of
>tab label is missing. Restarting the machine doesn't bring anything back.
>Needless to say, no one knows what the little girl did, if anything (she
>says she shut down the machine as she always does).
>
>Anyone have any idea what's going on here and/or how to restore the labels?
>I'm at a complete loss, have never seen anything like this before.
>
>N.
>

[Old Geezer]

"Bill Blanton" > wrote in message
...
> "Old Geezer" > wrote in message
> ...
>> My neighbor has a Windows 98 machine, which she uses for e-mail and also
>> for children's games for her granddaughter, who is about four. Since the
>> last time the little girl played with the computer, it has lost all the
>> usual tab labels. The Start button no longer says "Start," the minimize,
>> maximize and close buttons in the upper right of any program window are
>> now completely blank, so are the five tabs in Display Properties, and so
>> on. Every kind of tab label is missing. Restarting the machine doesn't
>> bring anything back. Needless to say, no one knows what the little girl
>> did, if anything (she says she shut down the machine as she always does).
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what's going on here and/or how to restore the
>> labels? I'm at a complete loss, have never seen anything like this
>> before.
>
> Sounds like she may have deleted some fonts. C:\Windows\Fonts\Marlett.ttf,
> for one, is responsible for the min/max/restore button graphics. Check
> the appearance tab (3rd one from the left) in display properties. In the
> "Item" drop-down find "Active Title Bar". Click it and check the Font
> listed below. That one is responsiblre for the Start button also.
>
> Use SFC to extract the missing fonts and direct it to put them in
> \Windows\Fonts. Then reboot. If you want, I can give you a list of
> fonts I have installed in a "default" Windows setup, so you can
> see what else may be missing.

Thanks! I'll try all that first and will reply again. I sure would
appreciate your posting that "default" list of fonts just to be safe, if
it's not too much trouble.

[Bill Blanton]

"Old Geezer" > wrote in message ...
>

> Thanks! I'll try all that first and will reply again. I sure would appreciate your posting that "default" list of fonts just to be
> safe, if it's not too much trouble.

Check Alan Edward's post. It is far more likely.
Here's the list anyway-

VGA850 FON 5,232 05-11-98 8:01p VGA850.FON
DESKTOP INI 67 05-11-98 8:01p DESKTOP.INI
ARIBLK TTF 103,992 05-11-98 8:01p ARIBLK.TTF
COMIC TTF 63,040 05-11-98 8:01p COMIC.TTF
COMICBD TTF 55,892 05-11-98 8:01p COMICBD.TTF
IMPACT TTF 126,056 05-11-98 8:01p IMPACT.TTF
VERDANA TTF 109,724 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANA.TTF
VERDANAB TTF 108,256 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANAB.TTF
VERDANAI TTF 123,824 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANAI.TTF
VERDANAZ TTF 124,712 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANAZ.TTF
WEBDINGS TTF 113,536 05-11-98 8:01p WEBDINGS.TTF
8514FIX FON 10,992 05-11-98 8:01p 8514FIX.FON
8514OEM FON 12,288 05-11-98 8:01p 8514OEM.FON
8514SYS FON 9,600 05-11-98 8:01p 8514SYS.FON
COURE FON 23,424 05-11-98 8:01p COURE.FON
COURF FON 31,744 05-11-98 8:01p COURF.FON
DOSAPP FON 44,320 05-11-98 8:01p DOSAPP.FON
MODERN FON 7,968 05-11-98 8:01p MODERN.FON
SERIFE FON 57,952 05-11-98 8:01p SERIFE.FON
SERIFF FON 81,744 05-11-98 8:01p SERIFF.FON
SMALLE FON 24,352 05-11-98 8:01p SMALLE.FON
SMALLF FON 19,632 05-11-98 8:01p SMALLF.FON
SSERIFE FON 64,656 05-11-98 8:01p SSERIFE.FON
SSERIFF FON 89,856 05-11-98 8:01p SSERIFF.FON
SYMBOLE FON 56,352 05-11-98 8:01p SYMBOLE.FON
SYMBOLF FON 80,928 05-11-98 8:01p SYMBOLF.FON
VGAFIX FON 5,376 05-11-98 8:01p VGAFIX.FON
VGAOEM FON 5,168 05-11-98 8:01p VGAOEM.FON
VGASYS FON 7,296 05-11-98 8:01p VGASYS.FON
ARIAL TTF 72,476 05-11-98 8:01p ARIAL.TTF
ARIALBD TTF 74,000 05-11-98 8:01p ARIALBD.TTF
ARIALBI TTF 80,548 05-11-98 8:01p ARIALBI.TTF
ARIALI TTF 69,756 05-11-98 8:01p ARIALI.TTF
COUR TTF 105,308 05-11-98 8:01p COUR.TTF
COURBD TTF 90,704 05-11-98 8:01p COURBD.TTF
COURBI TTF 90,988 05-11-98 8:01p COURBI.TTF
COURI TTF 88,504 05-11-98 8:01p COURI.TTF
LUCON TTF 107,820 05-11-98 8:01p LUCON.TTF
MARLETT TTF 17,412 05-11-98 8:01p MARLETT.TTF
SYMBOL TTF 66,028 05-11-98 8:01p SYMBOL.TTF
TAHOMA TTF 198,864 05-11-98 8:01p TAHOMA.TTF
TAHOMABD TTF 195,956 05-11-98 8:01p TAHOMABD.TTF
TIMES TTF 92,508 05-11-98 8:01p TIMES.TTF
TIMESBD TTF 90,332 05-11-98 8:01p TIMESBD.TTF
TIMESBI TTF 83,696 05-11-98 8:01p TIMESBI.TTF
TIMESI TTF 86,520 05-11-98 8:01p TIMESI.TTF
WINGDING TTF 81,328 05-11-98 8:01p WINGDING.TTF
47 file(s) 3,260,727 bytes
2 dir(s) 16,151.92 MB free

[Old Geezer]

Perfect! That was exactly what the problem was, Alan.

Thanks a million!

O.G.


"Alan Edwards" > wrote in message
...
> Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab.
> Change the item: 3D Objects to a contrasting color as she has changed
> it to match the objects, e.g. if the Start button, tabs and controls
> are grey, then she has changed 3D Objects to grey instead of black.
>
> ...Alan
>
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
> http://dts-l.org/index.html
>
> In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, "Old Geezer"
> > wrote:
>
>>My neighbor has a Windows 98 machine, which she uses for e-mail and also
>>for
>>children's games for her granddaughter, who is about four. Since the last
>>time the little girl played with the computer, it has lost all the usual
>>tab
>>labels. The Start button no longer says "Start," the minimize, maximize
>>and
>>close buttons in the upper right of any program window are now completely
>>blank, so are the five tabs in Display Properties, and so on. Every kind
>>of
>>tab label is missing. Restarting the machine doesn't bring anything back.
>>Needless to say, no one knows what the little girl did, if anything (she
>>says she shut down the machine as she always does).
>>
>>Anyone have any idea what's going on here and/or how to restore the
>>labels?
>>I'm at a complete loss, have never seen anything like this before.
>>
>>N.
>>
>

[Old Geezer]

Thanks very much for the list, Bill! I'll save that for just-in-case.

You're right, Alan's post identified the problem and it's now fixed.

O.G.


"Bill Blanton" > wrote in message
...
> "Old Geezer" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>
>> Thanks! I'll try all that first and will reply again. I sure would
>> appreciate your posting that "default" list of fonts just to be safe, if
>> it's not too much trouble.
>
> Check Alan Edward's post. It is far more likely.
> Here's the list anyway-
>
> VGA850 FON 5,232 05-11-98 8:01p VGA850.FON
> DESKTOP INI 67 05-11-98 8:01p DESKTOP.INI
> ARIBLK TTF 103,992 05-11-98 8:01p ARIBLK.TTF
> COMIC TTF 63,040 05-11-98 8:01p COMIC.TTF
> COMICBD TTF 55,892 05-11-98 8:01p COMICBD.TTF
> IMPACT TTF 126,056 05-11-98 8:01p IMPACT.TTF
> VERDANA TTF 109,724 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANA.TTF
> VERDANAB TTF 108,256 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANAB.TTF
> VERDANAI TTF 123,824 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANAI.TTF
> VERDANAZ TTF 124,712 05-11-98 8:01p VERDANAZ.TTF
> WEBDINGS TTF 113,536 05-11-98 8:01p WEBDINGS.TTF
> 8514FIX FON 10,992 05-11-98 8:01p 8514FIX.FON
> 8514OEM FON 12,288 05-11-98 8:01p 8514OEM.FON
> 8514SYS FON 9,600 05-11-98 8:01p 8514SYS.FON
> COURE FON 23,424 05-11-98 8:01p COURE.FON
> COURF FON 31,744 05-11-98 8:01p COURF.FON
> DOSAPP FON 44,320 05-11-98 8:01p DOSAPP.FON
> MODERN FON 7,968 05-11-98 8:01p MODERN.FON
> SERIFE FON 57,952 05-11-98 8:01p SERIFE.FON
> SERIFF FON 81,744 05-11-98 8:01p SERIFF.FON
> SMALLE FON 24,352 05-11-98 8:01p SMALLE.FON
> SMALLF FON 19,632 05-11-98 8:01p SMALLF.FON
> SSERIFE FON 64,656 05-11-98 8:01p SSERIFE.FON
> SSERIFF FON 89,856 05-11-98 8:01p SSERIFF.FON
> SYMBOLE FON 56,352 05-11-98 8:01p SYMBOLE.FON
> SYMBOLF FON 80,928 05-11-98 8:01p SYMBOLF.FON
> VGAFIX FON 5,376 05-11-98 8:01p VGAFIX.FON
> VGAOEM FON 5,168 05-11-98 8:01p VGAOEM.FON
> VGASYS FON 7,296 05-11-98 8:01p VGASYS.FON
> ARIAL TTF 72,476 05-11-98 8:01p ARIAL.TTF
> ARIALBD TTF 74,000 05-11-98 8:01p ARIALBD.TTF
> ARIALBI TTF 80,548 05-11-98 8:01p ARIALBI.TTF
> ARIALI TTF 69,756 05-11-98 8:01p ARIALI.TTF
> COUR TTF 105,308 05-11-98 8:01p COUR.TTF
> COURBD TTF 90,704 05-11-98 8:01p COURBD.TTF
> COURBI TTF 90,988 05-11-98 8:01p COURBI.TTF
> COURI TTF 88,504 05-11-98 8:01p COURI.TTF
> LUCON TTF 107,820 05-11-98 8:01p LUCON.TTF
> MARLETT TTF 17,412 05-11-98 8:01p MARLETT.TTF
> SYMBOL TTF 66,028 05-11-98 8:01p SYMBOL.TTF
> TAHOMA TTF 198,864 05-11-98 8:01p TAHOMA.TTF
> TAHOMABD TTF 195,956 05-11-98 8:01p TAHOMABD.TTF
> TIMES TTF 92,508 05-11-98 8:01p TIMES.TTF
> TIMESBD TTF 90,332 05-11-98 8:01p TIMESBD.TTF
> TIMESBI TTF 83,696 05-11-98 8:01p TIMESBI.TTF
> TIMESI TTF 86,520 05-11-98 8:01p TIMESI.TTF
> WINGDING TTF 81,328 05-11-98 8:01p WINGDING.TTF
> 47 file(s) 3,260,727 bytes
> 2 dir(s) 16,151.92 MB free
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