When you copy the fonts out of the Windows\Fonts folder the names of the fonts will change to  8-character names - they are in "uninstalled" form when they are in any other folder besides the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.

I have the same problem with MS providing fewer fonts everytime they "upgrade" an OS or application.  As a result, I am missing fonts I depended upon.  I'm older and my vision is not that good now.  When I tried to find my fonts online from MS to reclaim them, for the "normal" fonts I used to have, they want $30 per font.  Do I feel ripped off?  I do.  I feel that MS has stolen from me something I have already paid them for once.  Some of them were, I think, Win98SE fonts.

Anna


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Subject: [PCBUILD] Minimizing Windows fonts


<<<< My Windows Vista "Fonts" folder contains 417 files and 292  megabytes. I 
would like to reduce the number of fonts so Windows runs or starts  faster. 
This was a recommended technique for Win XP and I'm assuming it will  still 
work in Vista. I'm using Windows Explorer trying to move selected font  files to 
a folder called "MyDeletedFontFiles". Explorer does not seem to give me  the 
option of moving those files, but would allow me to copy or delete them. Is  
Windows somehow protecting those font files? Any comments on how to do this or  
the advisability of doing it would be appreciated.  >>>>>
Thanks very much, Bob Lendrim
 
 
Hi There Bob.... 
Open My  Computer
Right Click on C  drive
Right Click on  the  Windows folder
Find the Fonts folder....  then double click on it to open it up... 

Now.. on your desk top... have a folder opened there, labeled Discarded  
Fonts or what ever you want to label it.  
 
Hold your Left mouse Button down and drag one of the fonts you do  not want 
into that folder.  Now. if you want to see what it looks  like .... just double 
click on one of them  and it will show you  what it looks like.. or if you 
know the name of them... then select those  that way.  
 
I have some fonts I still use from my Win 98 cause XP didn't have as many  
fonts as Win 98 when I got it.. so all I did was just copy them from my Win 98  
fonts folder then pasted them in my XP Fonts folder.  Then save it on  a zip 
or CD or some place so that you will always have that Fonts folder.  
 
 
But try one first and see if that works for you.. Hope this  helps...   
Harriet
 



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