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Resolved What is FONT.MAP and why is it on my desktop?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by frayedknotarts, 2014/10/24.

  1. 2014/10/24
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    frayedknotarts Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Since the OS is XP-SP3, I'll put this here...

    As we all fondly remember, XP constantly requires restarts for one reason or another (It's Tuesday, and a cloud went across the sun) and it seems every time I do restart, I wind up with an icon for "FONT.MAP" on the desktop. Clicking on it and following the investigation it seems that the extension ">MAP" was most usually associated with the "Quake" game or any of a plethora of indecipherable older programs, none of which (I'm fairly sure) I have ever had on the computer.

    I can send it to Recycle with no apparent consequences, but it comes back each time after awhile.

    I R confuzed. Is this one of those "Bronco Billy" questions a fifth-grader should know already?
     
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    lj50 SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Did you try a System Restore from a date before the problem started.
     
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    frayedknotarts Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    It's been "a problem" (more like an annoyance) for quite some time... it just never annoyed me sufficiently to go looking for the cause until now.
     
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    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    Hi frayedknotarts. There were no hits on Google as to what this file is so I would first try performing a clean boot by following this link, How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" state and see if the file comes back on the desktop when the computer is in a clean boot state.

    Also since we don't know if the file is dangerous you should upload it to https://www.virustotal.com/ and see what the results are for that file.
     
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    Evan Omo: The first thing I did was a google search. The only reference I found was to the Character Map.
     
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    Since you marked this thread as resolved I am assuming you resolved the issue?
     
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