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My windows 10 show garbage characters, I guess I didn't do anything special, but when I start my computer, it looks like this now. is there anything I can do right now?enter image description here

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    Did you change the language or anything like that?
    – MC10
    Aug 3, 2015 at 14:34
  • I didn't change language, but I think I installed a font before last shut down. But I did install fonts on windows 7 or 8, never had this problem before.
    – Timeless
    Aug 3, 2015 at 14:36
  • Oh ok. Well try this, Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → under Fonts select Change Font Settings → Restore default font settings.
    – MC10
    Aug 3, 2015 at 14:45
  • @MC10 I'm not sure if you could help me take a screenshot of this page, I'm not able to recognize the characters.
    – Timeless
    Aug 3, 2015 at 14:52
  • Oh yeah, I'll post an answer with screenshots.
    – MC10
    Aug 3, 2015 at 14:53

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Since OP cannot read the menus, use the images for reference.

Open Control Panel and go to Appearance and Personalization.

Appearance

Now under Fonts select Change Font Settings.

Fonts

In the new window that opens, under Font Settings, click Restore default font settings.

Restore

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  • Dang, that's unfortunate. Is there any system restore you can do? How did you install the font?
    – MC10
    Aug 3, 2015 at 15:58
  • I double clicked a .ttc file and the font be installed. I guess it is the decoding part is wrong.
    – Timeless
    Aug 3, 2015 at 16:14
  • Oh... that's a Mac OS X font file. You would have to convert it. I'm not sure how to restore your system though. Try running sfc/ scannow or you may have to do a reset. Do you have any system restores available?
    – MC10
    Aug 3, 2015 at 16:16
  • yes, didn't think much, our designer put the font inside the dropbox, I just made a try to install. I guess I will try to reinstall or rollback to win 8.1.
    – Timeless
    Aug 3, 2015 at 16:19
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    @MichaelBailey I'm not sure but that is probably possible. I think he mentioned in chat that he eventually chose to rollback to Windows 8.1 for the time being though.
    – MC10
    Aug 4, 2015 at 23:28
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I've just had this same problem. I was able to fix it by reinstalling all fonts from a font directory I keep as a back-up.

Now, of course the question is: how do you get to this back-up font directory? :-) I was lucky enough to have stored that directory on a home server, so I could access it from another computer and simply count the n-th directory from the top, and so forth.

Good luck!

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  • You could also do this by booting from recovery media and copying the Fonts folder from a working computer.
    – Ben N
    Feb 9, 2016 at 15:18
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Just came across this problem. The font is Marlett.ttf. Uninstall of the font would not work from settings. Manually deleting the file did not work. I removed it from the fonts folder via booting to safe mode or a Hirens boot disc (sorry cant recall) and deleting it from the Windows Fonts folder. I set the fonts to default in Settings. Ran a SFC and the font came back. I redid the delete, then added the default font registry file to set it to Segoe. Then the font was gone for good.

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