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re: Deleting Fonts
Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 11:39 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul D
(827 messages posted)
List
of Windows 98 default fontsHow
to restore the Windows default fonts I have used several third-party font managers
that have worked fine. I'm currently using Font Wrangler from Alchemy
Mindworks. It's shareware.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 11:01 am, CHolm wrote:
>Excerpt from PCWorld:
>To view your fonts, select Start, Run, type fonts, and press Enter. To see what
a
>font looks like, double-click its icon. You can delete a font by right-clicking
it
>and selecting Delete, but it's safer to uninstall it by dragging it to another folder
>or drive--so you can always drag it back. You must do this dragging (in either direction)
>from within Windows Explorer. Moving or copying a font to or from the C:\Windows\Fonts
>folder via DOS commands or a third-party file management utility won't properly
install
>or uninstall it.
>
>Some fonts should stay put--notably Windows system fonts, which have the extension
>.fon instead of .ttf. The icon for a system font has a red 'A' rather than a gray-blue
>'TT'. System fonts are usually hidden files, but they're visible in the Fonts folder
>in Explorer. They disappear when you move them elsewhere, though. Some applications
>require specific fonts, such as Arial or Times New Roman, so you'd better keep them
>around.
>
>
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- Deleting Fonts (CHolm: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 11:01 am)
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