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I'm using Windows XP. Normally if I have font files listed in a Windows Explorer window, if I double-click a font name, a new window appears that has a sample of the font in various sizes plus a complete alphabet in the font plus some general info about the font. This happens for all types of fonts, True Type, Open Font (name may be wrong), etc.
Today I ran a program called TTF_INST.EXE that's on a an ancient CD with lots of fonts. It's a font installer program. It shows a list of fonts that you can install. I didn't do anything with it. Upon seeing that it didn't seem to offer anything particularly useful, I just closed it.
However, immediately thereafter double-clicking a font name no longer worked (except for .FON type fonts). When I double-clicked a font, nothing at all (at least nothing visible to me) happened.
I thought that that program probably (without my asking and without its telling me) changed the program associations for some types of font files, so I went to the Windows program to associate file types with a program (Control Panel => Folder options => File Types tab). I selected .TTF from the list of file types, clicked "Change" intending to re-associate that file type with Windows Font Viewer. On the list of programs, it said the recommended program was Firefox! Also Windows Font Viewer was not even on the list of available programs.
With help from Google, I found that the Windows Font Viewer program is fontview.exe, which I found on my system in C:/Windows/system32, so I went back to the Folder Options and selected that program to use for .TTF files.
After that, now when I double-click a TTF file, it displays an error message dialog box that says that the file is not a valid font file.
Any ideas what to do next to try to get back the normal behavior?
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