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I dabble in writing & use Helvetica font in printed text. (The company I worked for used it and I may or may not have found an old copy of it 
) I got this bright idea to install Helvetica in Windows so I could see what the finished product would look like in Word. It works great there. Then I got the not-so-bright idea to make Helvetica my system font. Why, I have no idea. After a restart, the font changed, but didn't look quite right in file explorer. I still liked it better than what I had so I kept it. I thought all was well until I went to do a search from start. As soon as I started typing, Start closed. However, I could search from within settings and I could search with file explorer. As soon as I changed my system font back to Calibri, I could search from start menu again. Back to Helvetica...start bad. Back to Calibri...start good.
So, lesson learned. It's not wise to use a non-traditional Windows font as your system font. MS is really protective when it comes to their start menu.
(no 3rd party GUI tools involved here)
) I got this bright idea to install Helvetica in Windows so I could see what the finished product would look like in Word. It works great there. Then I got the not-so-bright idea to make Helvetica my system font. Why, I have no idea. After a restart, the font changed, but didn't look quite right in file explorer. I still liked it better than what I had so I kept it. I thought all was well until I went to do a search from start. As soon as I started typing, Start closed. However, I could search from within settings and I could search with file explorer. As soon as I changed my system font back to Calibri, I could search from start menu again. Back to Helvetica...start bad. Back to Calibri...start good.So, lesson learned. It's not wise to use a non-traditional Windows font as your system font. MS is really protective when it comes to their start menu.
(no 3rd party GUI tools involved here)
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At a glance
Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.9457i9-10900 10 core 20 threads32 gbnone-Intel UHD Graphics 630- OS
- Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.9457
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- Dell Optiplex 7080
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- i9-10900 10 core 20 threads
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- DELL 0J37VM
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- 32 gb
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- none-Intel UHD Graphics 630
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- Integrated Realtek
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- Benq 27
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- 2560x1440
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- MT
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- Logitech wired
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- so slow I'm too embarrassed to tell
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At a glance
Windows 11 Pro 24H2 26200.9457AMD Ryzen 7 6800U32 gbintegrated- Operating System
- Windows 11 Pro 24H2 26200.9457
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
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- Beelink Mini PC SER5
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- AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
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- 32 gb
- Graphics card(s)
- integrated
- Sound Card
- integrated
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- Benq 27
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- 2560x1440
- Hard Drives
- 1TB Crucial nvme
- Keyboard
- Logitech wired
- Mouse
- Logitech wireless
- Internet Speed
- still too embarrassed to tell
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Defender
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System 3 is non compliant Dell 9020 i7-4770/24gb ram Win11 PRO 26200.9457
