[BritishBeef]

Hi
I have just received my Acer Aspire 1690 Laptop back from Acer after repairs (was freezing all the time - they replaced optical drive, hard drive and mainboard).

I am re-installing all my software but every now and then when a dialogue bx appears with a choice of buttons to click on there is no text so I don't know what buttons do what.

It doesn't happen every time but seems to happen when the dialogue boxes and buttons are not the standard windows type but ones made by the software (ie. they may be bigger than usual) - if that makes sense?!

Here's some examples:

Anyone come across this problem before? Anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[blah789]

Might be a font problem. I once had the text "start" from the start button disappear after I installed a program (close combat 3 trial) that overwrote the font (Windows file protection kicked in and fixed that, but I had to reboot).
Not sure which font(s) are affected, nor even the procedure to re-install lost fonts. You can always look in your control panel (classic view), fonts and make sure everything is there (though I wouldn't know just by looking what should be included).
These links may help
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960