Copy Vista fonts

[Mark]

I need to install SR2 for Access 97 on Vista - Home Basic. While Access 97
installs fine, there's a known problem installing SR2 on Vista. The
workaround that I've come across involves temporarily replacing four Vista
fonts (comic.ttf, comicbd.ttf, tahoma.ttf, and tahomabd.ttf) with those
versions which come with SR2. This reportedly allows SR2 to be installed,
after which the four Vista fonts are copied back to the Windows/Fonts
folder.

This procedure begins with copying those four Vista fonts to a temporary
folder. I am unable to do this, however. If I use cntrl-c to copy and
cntrl-v to paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. If I
right-click on the font, the Copy command is not available. If I use
Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. Vista
will not allow full privileges for these fonts, even though I'm signed on as
Administrator.

Evidently, someone was able to accomplish this on Vista, but I can't. Either
there's a setting I'm overlooking, or that other person was using a
different version of Vista.

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[Nonny]

I need to install SR2 for Access 97 on Vista - Home Basic. While Access 97
installs fine, there's a known problem installing SR2 on Vista. The
workaround that I've come across involves temporarily replacing four Vista
fonts (comic.ttf, comicbd.ttf, tahoma.ttf, and tahomabd.ttf) with those
versions which come with SR2. This reportedly allows SR2 to be installed,
after which the four Vista fonts are copied back to the Windows/Fonts
folder.

This procedure begins with copying those four Vista fonts to a temporary
folder. I am unable to do this, however. If I use cntrl-c to copy and
cntrl-v to paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. If I
right-click on the font, the Copy command is not available. If I use
Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. Vista
will not allow full privileges for these fonts, even though I'm signed on as
Administrator.

Evidently, someone was able to accomplish this on Vista, but I can't. Either
there's a setting I'm overlooking, or that other person was using a
different version of Vista.

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

This is DEFINITELY the wrong place to ask your question.

Try here:

microsoft.public.office.misc

 

[Mark]

excuse me, is this not the group for Vista?

This is DEFINITELY the wrong place to ask your question.

Try here:

microsoft.public.office.misc

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I need to install SR2 for Access 97 on Vista - Home Basic. While Access 97
installs fine, there's a known problem installing SR2 on Vista. The
workaround that I've come across involves temporarily replacing four Vista
fonts (comic.ttf, comicbd.ttf, tahoma.ttf, and tahomabd.ttf) with those
versions which come with SR2. This reportedly allows SR2 to be installed,
after which the four Vista fonts are copied back to the Windows/Fonts
folder.

This procedure begins with copying those four Vista fonts to a temporary
folder. I am unable to do this, however. If I use cntrl-c to copy and
cntrl-v to paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. If I
right-click on the font, the Copy command is not available. If I use
Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder.
Vista
will not allow full privileges for these fonts, even though I'm signed on
as
Administrator.

Evidently, someone was able to accomplish this on Vista, but I can't.
Either
there's a setting I'm overlooking, or that other person was using a
different version of Vista.

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

Have you tried Safe Mode? (keep on pressing F8 on bootup)

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Have you tried Safe Mode? (keep on pressing F8 on bootup)

Try command line as well, but run as Administrator by right clicking the
icon in Start Menu.

ss.

 

[Mark]

no, but I can try that. Thanks for the suggestion. Is this something that
you typically have to do in order to copy fonts, or something unique to
Vista?

 

[Mark]

Thanks for that too.

Try command line as well, but run as Administrator by right clicking the
icon in Start Menu.

ss.

 

[Nonny]

excuse me, is this not the group for Vista?

Yeah - the OPERATING SYSTEM and for discussiions about problems that
are operating-system-related.

There are specific groups for Office problems - your best bet is the
Office group. The Office 97 group's two most recent posts were in
February of this year and June of last year. .

FYI... these groups were created by MS to make finding solutions
simpler for users.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

no, but I can try that. Thanks for the suggestion. Is this something that
you typically have to do in order to copy fonts, or something unique to
Vista?

Safe Mode just loads essential default drivers and services. I do not have
a Vista machine to hand, apart from my HTPC, but I suspect that UAC has
something to do with what is going on there.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Yeah - the OPERATING SYSTEM and for discussiions about problems that
are operating-system-related.

There are specific groups for Office problems - your best bet is the
Office group. The Office 97 group's two most recent posts were in
February of this year and June of last year. .

FYI... these groups were created by MS to make finding solutions
simpler for users.

His immediate problem is not being able to copy fonts, which would make this
newsgroup the one for the best response.

ss.

 

[marty]

Have you tried dragging and dropping to a folder or the desktop?

 

[Mark]

no, but another good suggestion worth trying. Thanks.

 

[Mark]

you did mean dropping the fonts on the desktop -- not the laptop, right?

 

[V Green]

Yeah - the OPERATING SYSTEM and for discussiions about problems that
are operating-system-related.

This problem IS OS specific - no other OS has it except
Vista, so I think it's relevant here.

http://bytes.com/forum/thread622173.html

If the info there doesn't get you running,
try running as "super administrator"

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html

My "regular" admin account was enough for me to copy
the fonts - don't know what's up with yours. And there is NO reason
to put the Vista fonts back when you're done - there is no
visible difference. I copied my fonts over from a laptop
running XP.

There are specific groups for Office problems - your best bet is the
Office group. The Office 97 group's two most recent posts were in
February of this year and June of last year. .

It isn't an Office problem, it's a Vista problem.

 

[FPS, Romney]

Thank you V Green for the references.

This problem IS OS specific - no other OS has it except
Vista, so I think it's relevant here.

http://bytes.com/forum/thread622173.html

If the info there doesn't get you running,
try running as "super administrator"

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67567-administrator-account.html

My "regular" admin account was enough for me to copy
the fonts - don't know what's up with yours. And there is NO reason
to put the Vista fonts back when you're done - there is no
visible difference. I copied my fonts over from a laptop
running XP.


It isn't an Office problem, it's a Vista problem.

 

[FPS, Romney]

Thanks Chris. Yes, that's the one I tried, but ran into problems being able
to copy Vista fonts. I'll try doing it again as "Super Administrator", per V
Greens's suggestion above.

I need to install SR2 for Access 97 on Vista - Home Basic. While
Access 97 installs fine, there's a known problem installing SR2
on Vista. The workaround that I've come across involves
temporarily replacing four Vista fonts (comic.ttf, comicbd.ttf,
tahoma.ttf, and tahomabd.ttf) with those versions which come with
SR2. This reportedly allows SR2 to be installed, after which the
four Vista fonts are copied back to the Windows/Fonts folder.

The best solution to this seems to be at the bottom of this post:
http://bytes.com/forum/thread622173.html

--
Chris Game

"I've always found [Peter] an excellent source of advice, a guiding
light for the lost, lonely and terminally stupid." T Mighty Lemon

 

[FPS, Romney]

Just to confirm (I really don't want to mess up my friend's laptop!) ...

1. Provided that I can successfully copy Vista fonts (Comic and Tahoma) to a
temporary folder -- using either Safe Mode or as "Super Administrator" -- I
should be able to simply copy them back to Windows/Fonts and everything will
work fine. I don't need to "install" or "register" them, correct? I'm also a
little concerned about Tahoma possibly being a System font and causing some
serious problem by temporarily replacing it with the SR2 version. I
apologize to those who said this worked for them -- it's not my computer and
I just wanted to double-check.

2. Also wanted to confirm that fonts copied from an XP system will work
within Vista -- again, no "installing" or "registering", correct?

Thanks for all your input.

 

[marty]

I just uninstalled Tahoma from my Vista machine and my system is working
fine. I was able to do this using this program
http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/ . They have a trial version
for free. It uninstalls the font on restart if Windows.

You can copy the Tahoma font from XP and install to Vista with no
problems. When you copy the font file to the Fonts folder it installs
automatically.

 

[FPS, Romney]

Thank you so much, marty.

I just uninstalled Tahoma from my Vista machine and my system is working
fine. I was able to do this using this program
http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/ . They have a trial version
for free. It uninstalls the font on restart if Windows.

You can copy the Tahoma font from XP and install to Vista with no
problems. When you copy the font file to the Fonts folder it installs
automatically.