A Windows Mystery
Windows behaves in inexplicable ways. A few days ago I was uninstalling programs that I didn’t need any more. Suddenly, all icon text became italicised and most other text became bold. This formatting freak out was affecting window elements (buttons, menus etc.) and even web pages. Switching themes didn’t help and I had no idea what the hell caused this. So instead of wasting hours figuring out a solution I simply set some font overrides in the browser.
Yesterday, my LAN card suddenly stopped responding and threw up a BSOD. Since it was really late at night (so late it was actually early morning) I didn’t troubleshoot it right away. It did start work perfectly the next day but the interesting thing is that all font formatting was restored.
Weird. I’m just happy that I’ve gone for more than 6 months without a reinstall.
visu says:
Troubleshooting windows is total crap. Format and reinstall, thats the best solution.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Arun M says:
Most windows problems are solved with a restart
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Raghavsr says:
No, it won’t stop. You need to format
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 8:26 am
George says:
Last time that happened to me was in Windows 98. It was pretty funny, it used to happen in Windows 95 all the time. Sometimes the text would also get replaced by rectangular block characters. Much pain.
Funny that computer is unpredictable.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
xavier says:
sometimes i think windows is sentient and throws up problems like this just to piss me off.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 4:43 pm