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PowerShell displaying weird characters after Creators Update

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I've just installed Creators Update on my machine and upon launching PowerShell, instead of having a clean screen, I see this mess:

PowerShell

What could be a potential fix?

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Evaldas Buinauskas Avatar asked Apr 26 '17 06:04

Evaldas Buinauskas


1 Answers

From this article,

"The problem with PowerShell showing gibberish is a font problem. Specifically, the update corrupted rasterized fonts. If PowerShell was set to display text in the corrupted font, you will see a wall of gibberish instead."

The fix is pretty simple.

"On the Properties window, go to the Font tab. Here, you can change which font PowerShell uses. Select any font that isn’t listed under Rasterized fonts. Close PowerShell for good measure and open it again. The problem should be resolved."

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David Brabant Avatar answered Nov 14 '22 17:11

David Brabant