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While reading a font CD-ROM Windows displayed an “Invalid TrueType font encountered” message, and then crashed. What does this mean?

April 26, 2017CD-ROM crashed font mean message Reading Windows

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While reading a font CD-ROM Windows displayed an “Invalid TrueType font encountered” message, and then crashed. What does this mean?

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Not all fonts found online and on CD-ROM collections are valid font files. Fonts can get corrupted by being run through conversion utilities, being transferred from other operating systems, etc. Invalid fonts can crash the Windows TrueType font engine. If you get this error, you should reboot Windows and delete or avoid using this font. For more information, see Known Issues.