Fonts and Logs

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I hate fonts and logs because every program I try sticks more of them on my
pc and:

1. Half the uninstalls don't uninstall them.

2. It is impossible to find out which ones came from which programs.

3. It is impossible to find out which ones become adopted by which programs.

4. When I do want to use a fancy font for something Word shows me thousands
so it takes all day just to decide which one to go for, taking into account
that whoever I'm going to send the file to might not have that one on their
machine anyway, so that to embed or not to embed the font in question in turn
becomes the question; whether 'tis nobler to drown them in fancy jots and
tittles or suppose they already have their own?

5. When I use search to find all the log files it takes all day to agonise
about which to delete, because you never know, that one done last Thursday
might be usefull if whatever created it happens to crash sometime next month.

Microsoft! Is there nothing that can be done? Wouldn't it be better if
Windows had an intrusion wall of its own, like a firewall, that whenever a
program tried to drop a file into it then Windows put the file into
individual Outside The Windows directories titled "Files in this directory
came from ... < program name > ...", and attach little history notes to the
individual files showing which programs if any ever access the things?

:) Albert.
 
Albert said:
I hate fonts and logs because every program I try sticks more of them
on my pc and:
(snippage)

4. When I do want to use a fancy font for something Word shows me
thousands
Click to expand...

If you have thousands of fonts on your machine, use a third-party font
manager. I believe Adobe makes one, but I'm sure there are others. Use
Google for "font management software" or the like.

(more snippage)
5. When I use search to find all the log files it takes all day to
agonise about which to delete, because you never know, that one done
last Thursday might be usefull if whatever created it happens to crash
sometime next month.
Click to expand...

Why are you looking for log files? They are usually small text files
that take up almost no room. Leave them alone. If you are that
concerned about space, buy a bigger hard drive. You're probably one of
those people who worries about every little file, uses "registry
cleaners" and "duplicate file finders" and eventually hoses his
computer because he removes something vital. You don't need to be doing
all that to keep your computer healthy. Here is a link discussing
computer maintenance:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Maintenance
Microsoft! Is there nothing that can be done?
Click to expand...

You aren't talking to Microsoft here. This is a public newsgroup hosted
on MS servers. While some MS employees occasionally post here, the
majority of regular helpers are volunteers who don't work for the
company.

Malke
 
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