Can I Repair XP w/ SP2 with XP SP3 Disk??

phuschnickens

Hey guys. Is it safe for me to do a repair install of xp sp3 and all current updates (except ie8) with an xp sp2 disc. I don't really want to, but I guess I could slipstream a disc with all of the updates if the first method is not safe.

thanks
phu

EDIT: Reason for repair is to restore default fonts... using a font manager has created some font difficulties. Too many fonts = too many problems.

Thrax

You'll need to slipstream.

phuschnickens

Thrax wrote:

You'll need to slipstream.

ooooooookay

Thanks for the help...

kryyst

This is a list of all the windows default fonts You could try manually deleting all the extra ones.

You can also do a manual reinstall of just the fonts

Manual WAY
With this step, you can choose what default Windows XP fonts you want to restore back to your system one by one or just all. Open Command Prompt and go to the i386 folder of your Windows XP CD-ROM. Using the “expand -r” command, copy all the missing .tt_ and .fo_ files to Windows folder.
You can also just expand a specific font.


EXAMPLES:
for specific ".FON" font files
expand I:\i386\Sserife.fo_ C:\Windows\Fonts\Sserife.fon
for specific “.TTF” font files:
expand I:\i386\Arial.tt_ C:\Windows\Fonts\Arial.ttf

phuschnickens

great. thanks for the tip. Manually restoration of the fonts has fixed my initial font problem.

One new problem however...

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Distiller and some menus (ie... the save menu in photoshop and maybe more) are HUGE... they take up more than one of my monitors... can't even see the "Ok" and "Cancel" buttons at the bottom. Attempting to drag with the resize handles is futile.

HELP!!!

Thanks.

kryyst

Adobe likes to use it's own fonts, so you may need to run repair installs on those programs.