> What finally SEEMS to have fixed the problem for me (crossing fingers, > knocking on wood, hoping that Murphy's Law will not now extract a > horrible vengeance) is the suggestion about deleting the FNTCACHE.DAT > file in the C:\i386 and C:\WINDOWS\system32 folders. I haven't figured > out a way to automate this yet, but I did create some shortcuts to the > relevant directories so I can Eradicate the Evil Badness when necessary. > > Create a plain text file containing the following lines:
@echo off REM Delete fntcache.dat del c:\windows\system32\fntcache.dat REM Restart Windows in two seconds C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 02 Name the file with a .BAT extension and place it on your desktop. Double-clicking the file will run it. I'm not sure it's necessary to remove the fntcache.dat file in C:\i386, but if you also want to do it, use this file text instead: @echo off REM Delete fntcache.dat del c:\windows\system32\fntcache.dat del c:\i386\fntcache.dat REM Restart Windows in two seconds C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 02 Mike Wickham
