I tried booting my pc this morning only to find strange symbols where my english text once stood, it only seems to have problems with actual Windows software, all the text in websites and programs show up fine, here is a picture displaying.http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9284/091105095257.png

From the look of it, it's neither a Symbol or any other Windows Font displaying your system texts. The only case I can think of (and where I've seen something similar) is displaying text in a language for which you haven't the proper fonts installed. For example, if you try to display Japanese symbols without the right font (IME), you get those weird "placeholders". How you've got this interesting feature, is another question.Mobile AMD64 3000+, VIA Apollo K8T800 chipset, 1 G RAM, ATIRadeonMobility 9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)

Please check the following Registry entry. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FontAssoc\Associated Charset] The correct keys and values are: "ANSI(00)"="YES""OEM(FF)"="YES""SYMBOL(02)"="NO" If the issue persists, change your non-Unicode program setting. 1. Click Start, run intl.cpl from Start Search box. 2. Click the Administrative tab.3. Click Change system local. Choose the correct language.Arthur Xie - MSFT

I had a similar problem today after restarting Win7 on my laptop. When I checked the fonts (Start button --> type "fonts"), I realized that all of my fonts were missing besides unicode. I transfered all of my fonts from my old laptop to my new laptop that had the problem, and everything went back to normal. Phew! I have no idea how my fonts were deleted! I thought that it was some weird prank (or an alien visit). ;)