Installed over Arial

FontCreator - Font Editor FontCreator - Support
1

Hi.

I can’t believe how stupid I was and installed over Arial–I was trying to make a font with circles around the letters, for a multiple choice worksheet that I was making.

I thought that by changing the name it would work, but I didn’t change the information in Format > Naming. I am guessing that was my problem.

Anyway, my sister e-mailed me a copy of Arial from her computer, but when I tried installing that, it also turned into the mutant Arial, even after opening it the program and trying to install it that way.

I can’t alter it again or save any changes, apparently, because “windows or some other program might be using it.” I can’t delete the mutant Arial because Access is denied or protected or something.

If I reinstall Arial from a CD, will it work?

Is there any way out of this loop of doom?

I wouldn’t be as worried as I am except that the kerning is terrible despite having gone through most of the 900some pairs and I can’t read a lot of websites and some stuff in windows. . .

2

I somehow managed to fix it–not sure what finally did the trick, although I shut down a lot of things in the system tray, thinking that they might be inadvertanly using Arial, and then I deleted the mutant arial and then emptied the recylcling bin, so one of those things worked. . .

3

Most likely you have messed up the font related part of the registry. Usually not something to worry about, but in case you want be sure you could try Fix Fonts Folder.

Fix Fonts Folder is a free utility that locates and fixes font related problems. It scans all installed fonts and checks the integrity of the fonts related parts of the registry. It also repairs the fonts folder and rebuilds Windows font cache. You can download this free utility here.

Do let us know your results.