I have a question about Things that slow down system bootup:

I have seen many articles about removing fonts to improve performance, but I have never been able to find out which are safe to remove and which are not. Anyone care to comment

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You can safely remove any of the ttf fonts that you don't use. But don't expect to 
see huge gains from removing a few fonts. If you have 500 fonts and you drop that 
to 25, you'll probably notice a difference. If you have 25 and drop it to 1, I doubt 
that you will see any difference.

By default I don't think XP uses any True Type Fonts, other apps will use some.






On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 1:06 pm, Agostino wrote:
>I have a question about Things 
>that slow down system bootup:

>I have seen many articles about removing fonts to improve performance, but I have 
>never been able to find out which are safe to remove and which are not.  Anyone 
care 
>to comment
>

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If you open the font folder in control panel, the fonts that have a "Red A" are system fonts, KEEP these. You can safely delete the others.


On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 1:06 pm, Agostino wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:

>I have seen many articles about removing fonts to improve performance, but I have
>never been able to find out which are safe to remove and which are not. Anyone care
>to comment
>

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If you chave purchased, or received with another purchase, one of the many disks 
with 3000 or so fonts, remove most or all. It is an overload that will even affect 
some apps. If you have 2 or 3 hundred, ypu have flexibility in Word etc., and no 
great stress on boot up. Study here for real help on boot up speed:   
Windows XP Home and Professional 
Service Configurations by Black Viper





On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 1:06 pm, Agostino wrote:
>I have a question about Things 
>that slow down system bootup:

>I have seen many articles about removing fonts to improve performance, but I have 
>never been able to find out which are safe to remove and which are not.  Anyone 
care 
>to comment
>

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Been crashing helicopters all day.
Fun diversion from solitaire.
%^)






On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 1:40 pm, Tom Swanson wrote:
>If you chave purchased, or received with another purchase, one of the many disks 
>with 3000 or so fonts, remove most or all. It is an overload that will even affect 
>some apps. If you have 2 or 3 hundred, ypu have flexibility in Word etc., and no 
>great stress on boot up. Study here for real help on boot up speed:   
>Windows XP Home and Professional 
>Service Configurations by Black Viper
>



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Nice thing is the speed of the game. No planning or strategy, just fast timing on 
the mouse button and then it's over  ;o))






On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 2:26 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
>Been crashing helicopters all day.
>Fun diversion from solitaire.
>%^)
>
>



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Many thanks for that sTeve.


On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 1:15 pm, sTeve wrote:
>
>If you open the font folder in control panel, the fonts that have a "Red A" are system
>fonts, KEEP these. You can safely delete the others.
>

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I had a problem where my machine took about 3 to 5 minutes to boot up with XP. It turned out that the problem occurred with a conflict in my network connections between the broadband connection (created when installing software provided by my internet provider) and a network connection associated with my ethernet card. I solved the problem by going into device manager, right clicked on the ethernet card under network adapters and properties. I then deselected the all the boxes that were checked that contained TCP protocols etc. Now rebooting takes less than 30 seconds! I believe the problem developed following one of the XP updates.

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