Firefox fonts bold and italic after upgrading to 3.6.x

Sarah — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:11:31 +0000

Has the latest Firefox upgrade caused font problems? Are fonts randomly appearing in an ugly bold italic format on certain places? I recently had this problem myself and a lot of research into it suggested that upon upgrading, some of the main system fonts become corrupted. The most commonly corrupted font was arial, so your first port of call would be to replace this font with a clean version. Here’s how:

1. Download a fresh version of Arial: http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/microsoft-core-web-fonts

2. Close your browser and anything else currently using the Arial font on your system.

3. Delete the arial font from C:/WINDOWS/fonts

4. Run the installer to install the fresh version of arial.

5. Reboot your computer

6. Start your browser up again and check to see if the font problem has resolved.

Now, here it is important to note that it might not be Arial causing your problems, but one of the other main fonts used in websites – particularly courier, trebuchet, helvetica, verdana or times new roman. If the problem still hasn’t resolved after replacing Arial (in my case I needed to replace Helvetica), then repeat the process with different fonts until you find the right one. Good luck!

Disclaimer: this article assumes you are comfortable and confident making changes to your computer’s system files. bewarethegeek.com assumes no responsibility should following any of the changes suggested here cause a system failure.

Delete a Message Stuck in the Outbox – Microsoft Outlook

Sarah — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:00:48 +0000

Ever had that problem where you’re trying to send a message in Microsoft Outlook and it gets stuck in the outbox? You’ve tried deleting it but it gives you the message that the message is in the process of being sent so you can’t delete it? And any other emails you try and send get stuck in the queue behind the message that won’t move? The reason the email got stuck in the first place is usually because it’s too large for your server to process. If you google the solution to this you’ll find a long list of really complicated ways of trying to remove the message, often involving having to add new PST files and who wants to do that? I have two easier solutions for you.

Solution 1:

Go to file –> work offline to put outlook into offline mode.

Go get a cup of coffee/tea.

Come back, close outlook.

Re-open outlook and try and delete the file.

Solution 2:

Go to your outbox.

Right-click on the file and click “move file to another folder.” and move it somewhere else, say drafts.

Go to drafts, delete the file.

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Delete a Message Stuck in the Outbox – Microsoft Outlook