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I am a bit of a font fanatic but the problem with that is I have WAY too many
fonts. I prefer to delete or uninstall many of the "boring" fonts that seem
to get installed with Office and Windows etc to make space for my 300
Handwritting and other cool Fonts. I prefer not to have to scroll through
more than 600 and I have about 2500 on my system at one time.
From the Beginning Windows has had a lousy way of controlling Fonts. You
can't see what the fonts are unless you double click. Windows used to crash
with more than a few hundred. You can't uninstall without deleting or moving
manually.
I thought that with Vista there would at LEAST be some improvement on the
way Fonts are Managed - but No. In fact MS has made Font management even more
difficult. Not only is there no "thumbnails" or "Font Preview" program there
is no "disable or enable" fonts and MS has even prevented me from deleting
some fonts without taking ownership. They have LONG been deleted on my XP
machines so I know Windows runs fine without them. Also, now I can't just
MOVE the Fonts out of the directory. I have to copy and then manually delete.
I have been waiting 12 years for this? I am wondering why with all the bells
and whistles that Vista offers that it doesn't offer something this simple.
What I would LOVE to see
1> Font management Program built into Windows so you can VIEW actual FONTS
without having to open them.
2> Button to "disable" Fonts you don't like (this would move fonts from
Fonts Directory to "FontsDisabled" directory).
3> For Networks - ability to REMOTELY deploy Fonts to workstations. I run a
large network and everytime someone wants a Font I have to Manually copy the
font and logon to the workstation and Open the Font Control Panel to make it
into the cache.
Cheers,
Lara
fonts. I prefer to delete or uninstall many of the "boring" fonts that seem
to get installed with Office and Windows etc to make space for my 300
Handwritting and other cool Fonts. I prefer not to have to scroll through
more than 600 and I have about 2500 on my system at one time.
From the Beginning Windows has had a lousy way of controlling Fonts. You
can't see what the fonts are unless you double click. Windows used to crash
with more than a few hundred. You can't uninstall without deleting or moving
manually.
I thought that with Vista there would at LEAST be some improvement on the
way Fonts are Managed - but No. In fact MS has made Font management even more
difficult. Not only is there no "thumbnails" or "Font Preview" program there
is no "disable or enable" fonts and MS has even prevented me from deleting
some fonts without taking ownership. They have LONG been deleted on my XP
machines so I know Windows runs fine without them. Also, now I can't just
MOVE the Fonts out of the directory. I have to copy and then manually delete.
I have been waiting 12 years for this? I am wondering why with all the bells
and whistles that Vista offers that it doesn't offer something this simple.
What I would LOVE to see
1> Font management Program built into Windows so you can VIEW actual FONTS
without having to open them.
2> Button to "disable" Fonts you don't like (this would move fonts from
Fonts Directory to "FontsDisabled" directory).
3> For Networks - ability to REMOTELY deploy Fonts to workstations. I run a
large network and everytime someone wants a Font I have to Manually copy the
font and logon to the workstation and Open the Font Control Panel to make it
into the cache.
Cheers,
Lara