Why Do I Get Small & Foreign Fonts ???

All I can say about Nibiru2012's post is: OMG!!!!!! I believe I'll try to live with the S***load of useless fonts rather than spend (probably) the rest of my life deleting them.

The little up and down arrows are merely to "show hidden icons" in the right-hand portion of the system tray - things like speaker volume, internet connectivity, etc. Sorry, the answer to my problem doesn't reside there either.

But you're coming up with some great suggestions. Perhaps if you stay up all night pondering this you will have found a solution for me by the time I roll out of bed tomorrow morning. Hah! Hah! (Hey - they provided the smiley faces, not I)

But seriously.....I really DO appreciate your taking the time to help me. Thanks!!!

The up carat by itself shows your hidden notification icons (red circle) but beside it is an up carat and down carat (red rectangle).

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That is where I have seen language selection before so I was just wondering what those carats in the red rectangle do on your machine, not the other one.

Or you could just see this: Too many non-Latin Fonts & Languages in your Win7 system ?

Ooooppss.....my mistake. Too much wine with dinner I guess. The up & down arrows display additional (overflow) program icons when there are too many "pinned" to the taskbar along the bottom of my screen. The single up arrow to the right of that does as I described in my last reply.

Have you tried Control Panel - Fonts - Font settings -
Then "Restore default font settings" and tick the box (language settings)

Also (I'm sure you've been here!)
Right click screen - personalise. - Display. - Set custom text size. Then try a few alternatives in that windows. Mine, by default, also has the XP box ticked. and says "9 point Segoe at 96 pixels per inch"

Been there. Done that. Wish it were that simple. Thanks for responding.

Sounds like Elmer's batch file he linked to might help by getting rid of fonts you don't like.

Also please check this is set to English: