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Old March 12th 19, 10:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update

Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34 4 sq 34 and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very large
display (40pt) date/time. I use that and don't/can't see the tool tray.
So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this. My wifes laptop is
fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.

Al
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  #2  
Old March 12th 19, 10:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update

On 03/12/2019 4:01 PM, Big Al wrote:
Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34Â* 4 sq 34Â* and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very large
display (40pt) date/time.Â* I use that and don't/can't see the tool tray.
Â*So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this.Â* My wifes laptop is
fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.

Al


Sorry Al, I had that same problem about a year ago but can't for the
life of me remember what I did to cure it, Someone with better nemory
retention will come along and give you the fix.

Rene

  #3  
Old March 12th 19, 10:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update

On 3/12/19 5:50 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 03/12/2019 4:01 PM, Big Al wrote:
Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34Â* 4 sq 34Â* and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very
large display (40pt) date/time.Â* I use that and don't/can't see the
tool tray. Â*Â*So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this.Â* My wifes laptop
is fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.

Al


Sorry Al, I had that same problem about a year ago but can't for the
life of me remember what I did to cure it, Someone with better nemory
retention will come along and give you the fix.

Rene

Well at least it's a known issue (if you want to call it known). Thanks

Al
  #4  
Old March 12th 19, 11:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update [FIXED]

On 3/12/19 5:50 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 03/12/2019 4:01 PM, Big Al wrote:
Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34Â* 4 sq 34Â* and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very
large display (40pt) date/time.Â* I use that and don't/can't see the
tool tray. Â*Â*So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this.Â* My wifes laptop
is fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.

Al


Sorry Al, I had that same problem about a year ago but can't for the
life of me remember what I did to cure it, Someone with better nemory
retention will come along and give you the fix.

Rene

Found it!
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...83786c8?page=5

This is the last page of a long thread. Bottom of the page is a .reg
file (text of it) that resets all the associations for the SegoeUI
Regular font. In my PC, quite a few of the Segoe UI fonts were not
linked to a ttf file:
Here is my export before I imported the fix, you can see that several of
the fonts have a name but no ttf font. =""
That seemed to be the issue. That font (per the forum post) seems to
have the right character set to present a different colon in the clock
that is up a bit higher off the baseline than a normal colon, making the
clock look better.

Al.

"Segoe MDL2 Assets (TrueType)"="segmdl2.ttf"

"Segoe Print (TrueType)"="segoepr.ttf"

"Segoe Print Bold (TrueType)"="segoeprb.ttf"

"Segoe Script (TrueType)"="segoesc.ttf"

"Segoe Script Bold (TrueType)"="segoescb.ttf"

"Segoe UI (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Black (TrueType)"="seguibl.ttf"

"Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType)"="seguibli.ttf"

"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Emoji (TrueType)"="seguiemj.ttf"

"Segoe UI Historic (TrueType)"="seguihis.ttf"

"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Light Italic (TrueType)"="seguili.ttf"

"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Semibold Italic (TrueType)"="seguisbi.ttf"

"Segoe UI Semilight (TrueType)"="segoeuisl.ttf"

"Segoe UI Semilight Italic (TrueType)"="seguisli.ttf"

"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"=""
  #5  
Old March 12th 19, 11:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update [FIXED]

On 03/12/2019 5:34 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 3/12/19 5:50 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 03/12/2019 4:01 PM, Big Al wrote:
Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34Â* 4 sq 34Â* and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very
large display (40pt) date/time.Â* I use that and don't/can't see the
tool tray. Â*Â*So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this.Â* My wifes laptop
is fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.

Al


Sorry Al, I had that same problem about a year ago but can't for the
life of me remember what I did to cure it, Someone with better nemory
retention will come along and give you the fix.

Rene

Found it!
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...83786c8?page=5


This is the last page of a long thread.Â*Â* Bottom of the page is a .reg
file (text of it) that resets all the associations for the SegoeUI
Regular font.Â*Â*Â* In my PC, quite a few of the Segoe UI fonts were not
linked to a ttf file:
Here is my export before I imported the fix, you can see that several of
the fonts have a name but no ttf font.Â*Â* =""
That seemed to be the issue.Â*Â* That font (per the forum post) seems to
have the right character set to present a different colon in the clock
that is up a bit higher off the baseline than a normal colon, making the
clock look better.

Al.

"Segoe MDL2 Assets (TrueType)"="segmdl2.ttf"

"Segoe Print (TrueType)"="segoepr.ttf"

"Segoe Print Bold (TrueType)"="segoeprb.ttf"

"Segoe Script (TrueType)"="segoesc.ttf"

"Segoe Script Bold (TrueType)"="segoescb.ttf"

"Segoe UI (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Black (TrueType)"="seguibl.ttf"

"Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType)"="seguibli.ttf"

"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Emoji (TrueType)"="seguiemj.ttf"

"Segoe UI Historic (TrueType)"="seguihis.ttf"

"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Light Italic (TrueType)"="seguili.ttf"

"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"=""

"Segoe UI Semibold Italic (TrueType)"="seguisbi.ttf"

"Segoe UI Semilight (TrueType)"="segoeuisl.ttf"

"Segoe UI Semilight Italic (TrueType)"="seguisli.ttf"

"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"=""


Good work Al, glad you found it. :-)

Rene
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Old March 13th 19, 08:02 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ralph Fox
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:01:00 -0400, Big Al wrote:

Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34 4 sq 34 and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very large
display (40pt) date/time. I use that and don't/can't see the tool tray.
So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this. My wifes laptop is
fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.



I'm not seeing that here.


A. Go to "Control Panel Region"
or to "Control Panel Clock and Region Region"
and check if the "Short time" setting also has odd characters in it.

If it does, try picking a better choice from the drop-down pick-list.

If there is no better choice in the drop-down pick-list, and you want
to edit the "Short time" setting, then
* Click on "Additional settings..."
* Then select the "Time" tab.


B. Another possibility is that the tray clock really is trying to display
a colon, but the font is screwed up.

(If this is a problem with the font cache, it is possible to reset
the font cache.)



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Kind regards
Ralph
  #7  
Old March 13th 19, 01:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Clock showing odd characters in time after todays update

On 3/13/19 3:02 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:01:00 -0400, Big Al wrote:

Just did the cumulative update to this month and after the reboot my
clock in the tray is showing a square box where the colon should be.
4:34 4 sq 34 and it looks like it's 4034.
I rebooted but not fix.

Now I have to admit, I have a widget on the screen that has a very large
display (40pt) date/time. I use that and don't/can't see the tool tray.
So it may have been like this before.

Anyway, just curious if anyone else is seeing this. My wifes laptop is
fine, so I'm not sure it was the update.



I'm not seeing that here.


A. Go to "Control Panel Region"
or to "Control Panel Clock and Region Region"
and check if the "Short time" setting also has odd characters in it.

If it does, try picking a better choice from the drop-down pick-list.

If there is no better choice in the drop-down pick-list, and you want
to edit the "Short time" setting, then
* Click on "Additional settings..."
* Then select the "Time" tab.


B. Another possibility is that the tray clock really is trying to display
a colon, but the font is screwed up.

(If this is a problem with the font cache, it is possible to reset
the font cache.)



Read above post. I found the fix.
Al
 




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