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Frustration with Font Management in Windows 7

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Real Estate Agent with Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert DRE #SA554748000

I frequently use a lot of fonts in my flyers and printed materials.

I notice that my Windows 7 installation contains 79 of 264 that are foreign language fonts. I understand that these fonts had no business being installed on MY system in the first place.

After scouring the internet for instructions on how to delete the un-needed fonts, I could find no satisfactory approach that would allow me to cure the situation. All the "solutions" that I found required a tedious process of changing the file ownerships and permissions for each of the font files one at a time and then repeating the process again one at a time to delete them. This process is done at the old DOS command level.

Some of the Windows Gurus with these answers indicated that Windows had numerous bugs in the font management and that the Windows Programmers had neglected to give us an appropriate method of managing the fonts.

One even mentioned joining the Trusted Installer Group. This seems to me to be unrealistically risky as the Trusted Installer has almost unlimited power to mess up Windows.

Does anyone have an answer to this problem?

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Jay Taylor
Cre8tive Apps, LLC - Austin, TX

Have you tried going into the control panel and then into the font folder?

 

i.e.

Start -> Control Panel -> Fonts?

 

This should open a window with all the fonts installed on your system.  Find the fonts you want to remove and delete them.

 

You can select multiple files by hitting the Control Button on your keyboard and holding it down as you select the fonts.  This will enable you to select multiple files that are not next to each other.

You can also choose to hide fonts you don't want displayed.  There are a couple of ways to do this but if you look at Font Settings, you can hide fonts based upon default language selection.

Jul 16, 2012 01:10 PM
John Mosier
Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert - Prescott, AZ
Prescott's Patriot Agent 928 533-8142

Thanks, Jay.  I tried you suggestion and it allowed me to delete 4 or 5 fonts. The rest of the fonts are labled SYSTEM FONTS and it will not let me delete them. I also found some marked "in-use."

I have other things to do. I am not paid for fixing M$ problems. I can't spend any more time worrying with this issue.

Jul 17, 2012 08:51 AM
John Mosier
Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert - Prescott, AZ
Prescott's Patriot Agent 928 533-8142

I have two laptops, one is a Sony Viao running Windows 7 Home Premium. I have a product key for an upgrade to Windows 7 Professional that has not been used.  Would this help with my situation? This laptop is the one I use all the time.

Dell Vostro 1500 running Windows 7 Ultimate.  I tried to delete the foreign fonts on this laptop today and it brought up a dialog box asking for my Administrator password. I did not remember it at the time, so I did not go further.

Jul 17, 2012 09:00 AM
Jay Taylor
Cre8tive Apps, LLC - Austin, TX
Upgrading to pro would likely not help any. System Fons are used throughout the os which is why you typically cannot delete them. System fonts often contain symbols, etc. I am not sure what to suggest about the admin password.
Jul 17, 2012 12:01 PM
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