Fonts on windows gone wrong?!

[LemonyBrainAid]

Hi,
I have about 2.5k fonts on my system. I was innocently installing some new ones today from a folder to my C:\WINDOWS\Fonts directory.

Everything seemed to go well, I was only installing 5/6 fonts. It was fine until I clicked on something, then my system lagged for a few seconds and now every single font on my system has been changed (literally, and into hard-reading fonts :@!!).

I've tried changing it in Desktop Properties> Appearance > Effects/Advanced
yet it doesn't change the actual windows labels for stuff, etc. I'll see if I can attach a screenshot.

Anyone got any ideas?! I tried google, but couldn't find anything helpful - although it is hard to see with this stupid font

Regards,
LBA
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For some reason that I dont know of, it's getting better - The fonts seem to be coming back gradually o_O

Really weird
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Reviewing the situation, I have a suggestion of what it might be - I reckon the fonts I had and the ones I was going to add became corrupted and windows is attempting to fix them by adding substitutes in.

[handyman]

lol, I had this problem before when I sold a computer to a freind.
She installed loads of programs on her PC. Windows has a 'amount' of fonts it can handle if you go over this limit it all goes pete tong. try deleting some.

try here for more info

[LemonyBrainAid]

Thanks

Managed to trim it down to 661 and deleting quite a few right now.