I recently wiped out and reinstalled the OS (XP pro) on my work laptop. It had become really slow and I was running out of hard drive space. It went pretty smoothly and I updated everything and then began the process of reinstalling everything. There were a few bumps but it was mostly smooth. Then I ran into something weird.
CCCI has a set of branding standards that includes guidelines for colors, logos, fonts, etc. And being team players we try to follow them, as much as we can, with our newsletters. I was trying to reinstall the fonts I need and they wouldn’t go. I kept getting errors that the files were bad. I thought maybe something had happened and re-downloaded them a few times and other things but nothing would work. Then I tried installing them on my desktop machine (though I already had) and it worked fine. I went back to google and kept looking for anything that might help.
I finally ran across this blog post by James Peters. He was having the exact same program under almost identical circumstances. He said he thought it might have something to do with nvidea drivers (which are running on my laptop) and said he installed the fonts just fine from safe mode. That seemed really odd, but I tried it, and it worked for me too. What a crazy bug. I didn’t have this problem before, I wonder if I have newer video drivers since the rebuild and that is where the problem came in. Why should my video driver cause font installs to fail? Very, very strange – but I sure appreciate James taking the time to point out his solution or I would still be stuck.
