I've been trying to help my sister with a little font problem on her XP system. As regular readers of these columns will know, I don't use Windows, so I'm struggling.
The captions under the desktop icons are displayed in an almost unreadable outline style, i.e. rather fat characters which are mainly transparent with thin grey lines around them. The fonts themselves are perfectly normal - Tahoma 9pt with no styles. If I change the font in Display/Properties the characters change shape as expected, but still with the transparent outline appearance.
All other fonts on the system behave normally. Can someone suggest how to fix this? It's not due to something my sister has done, by the way, as the fonts have been like this since the machine was new with Windows pre-installed.