Is this what you faced?
Because you freaking hell used pirated or “chiong” version of Left 4 Dead! This is the punishment!
Needless to say, I am here to provide the solution. To my best knowledge, I found that the fonts affected are:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Tahoma Courier New Verdana Arial Arial Narrow Arial Bold Lucida Console Trebuched MS Times New Roman Marlett |
So now, you need another PC with Windows XP installed. Just go to C:\\Windows and copy the Fonts folder. Replace the existing Fonts folder in your affected PC with the newly copied. I hope you get what I meant.
Nevertheless if you have no option to do the above method, you can try out a riskier way.
Restoring your Windows to a state before uninstalling Left 4 Dead or manually restore the registry, which I don’t highly recommend.
To make things simple, I will only cover how to manually restore your registry. If you would like to restore your Windows to the previous state, Google is your best friend. 
Note: editing the registry is highly risky and may lead to a corrupt/non-functional/sot-sot system. Do this at your own risk.
1. Click “Start” and then “Run”
2. Type regedit.exe and press Run/OK
3. First of all, backup your current registry by going to File -> Export and save it to a safe place, preferably an external thumb drive or something accessible.
4. Navigate through the folder tree to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Wi… NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts
5. Here, you’ll need to add a string variable for each font in the list above with the correct font-file in your C:\\Windows\\Fonts folder. If the variable already exists, check that the filename is correct. An example is the following (in string name -> value):
Tahoma (TrueType) -> tahoma.ttf
Courier New (TrueType) -> cour.ttf
Verdana (TrueType) -> verdana.ttf
Arial (TrueType) -> arial.ttf
Arial Narrow (TrueType) -> arialn.ttf
Arial Bold (TrueType) -> arialbd.ttf
Lucida Console (TrueType) -> lucon.ttf
Trebuched MS (TrueType) -> trebuc.ttf
Times New Roman (TrueType) -> times.ttf
Marlett (TrueType) -> marlett.ttf
6. Exit the register editor and reboot your computer to be sure that the changes has been made. You should now have your normal fonts back.
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tnk`s for the knowledge you pass to us it was kind of helpfull combining it with some other post that i read at the same time.my english is not very good.i`m sorry.
if u want to do this,it should work on xp,windows 7 or vista,the difference is between the name of the folders,you should change for example a file that is called “currier new” in xp in windows 7 would be just “cour”
1st step : download 7zip program from 7-zip.org
2nd step : introduce the windows cd,or burn a image with isohunt or deamon tools
3rt step : go to “Sources” to in the drive where windows image or cd is ,then search for “install.wim” and then open it with 7zip,open directory 1,2 and search for “fronts”,
4th step : open fronts and look for 1 Tahoma
2 Courier New
3 Verdana
4 Arial
5 Arial Narrow
6 Arial Bold
7 Lucida Console
8 Trebuched MS
9 Times New Roman
10 Marlett
5th step : search for these name`s and install everything you find starting with the first 1-2 letters even if it`s just one.i didn`t know what were the exact folders so i tried 20-30 of them.
Done
You ‘re welcome