Hello!
I have installed Octave-4.4.1- in windows 7 following the procedure in the
"octave for windows" wiki site,
Did you use the executable installer or the zip package? And if the latter did you follow the instructions for what to do after install? Earlier versions had an issue where the font cache would have to be rebuilt. This could be avoided by running a batch file included in the octave folder as explained in the wiki. I believe this is largely been resolved inversion 5, is there a reason you need to use an old version of octave?