Although we may never know for sure what happened on your system, the most common cause of such font issues is usually a missing or corrupt .ttf file on your system. When Windows cannot locate a font in the exact language/codepage that was originally defined, it substitutes a similar font. This can cause display issues as Windows uses the specifications from the original font (width of characters, etc.) while displaying an alternate font that may differ slightly from the original. Changing the font will usually correct the problem. Since the OS will only provide a list of the fonts that it knows to be valid on the system, reassigning a known font implements it correctly and eliminates the font substitution.
Most likely the Message Box font defined on your system was not Tahoma. One possibility is that the Message Box font may have been altered sometime in the past when a Theme was applied to your system. Whatever the case, the defined font could not be found, so the Display settings defaulted to Tahoma while delivering font specifications for a font definition that it could not resolve.
I am sure that the Scooter team will not be interested in dragging out an argument on this topic, but the fact is that your OS, for whatever reason, was performing a font substitution. Changing away from and back to Tahoma allowed the OS to correctly implement the Tahoma font on your system rather than to substitute a font for whatever was not working correctly before.
Originally posted by Tim
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