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I have a computer running WIN98SE. The Arial font in all applications is corrupted (small dots appear on some of the characters and make them unreadable.) Is there a way to reload the font? I can’t find a download anywhere.

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The Arial font is really a collection of .TTF files that make up the series. I believe it would be a copyright violation for someone to send the files to you, as miniscule as that may seem. Do you have your Win98 CD handy? If you do, and also have a copy of Winzip, you could browse in the .CAB files on the CD to see if you can find the one where font files are stored. They will (may) be in the CAB files with something like xxxx.TT_ in compressed form. It’ll take a little searching but it can be done. Of course, Windows would object to re-installing a font that’s already installed, so you may have to un-install the Arial font first, and to be truthful, I don’t even know if Windows will let you do that or not. You may be stuck with a repair re-installation in the final analysis. Anyone else have any ideas?

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I just did a little checking on my Win98 CD and it seems that the Arial font files are in a file called WIN98_52.CAB. If you have your CD you ought to be able to extract the TTF files.

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I wonder if you can use System File Checker to replace corrupted Font files….(I’ve only ever used SFC for .dll’s……but it was probably the only redeeming feature of Windows 98).

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BigAlDoc (& Whomever):

Can’t you just run ‘Setup’ from within Windows to patch and fix any damaged files?

Chuck Billow

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Put the Win 98SE CD in the drive, type sfc in the “Run” box, then click “replace one file” (or words to that effect), then type in that Cab file whatever, and the
computer should just take it from there. I use it often to fix things that get corrupted. Good Luck.

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