Fonts and memory

[Guest]

I remember reading a long time ago something aobut how uninstalling fonts
doesn't delete them. I use a very short list of primarily Type 1 fonts, and
would like to free up the memory taken up by the plethora of unused fonts on
my system. Can I just uninstall them to free up memory or must I delete them?

Also, is there any way to measure the memory taken up by them so I can
measure the benefit from uninstalling them?
Thanks!
Sue

 

[Malke]

I remember reading a long time ago something aobut how uninstalling
fonts
doesn't delete them. I use a very short list of primarily Type 1
fonts, and would like to free up the memory taken up by the plethora
of unused fonts on
my system. Can I just uninstall them to free up memory or must I
delete them?

Also, is there any way to measure the memory taken up by them so I can
measure the benefit from uninstalling them?
Thanks!
Sue

I'm really not sure what you mean by "memory taken up by them" but I
think you're worrying needlessly unless you have a trillion fonts
installed. XP doesn't handle fonts the same way older MS operating
systems did. Uninstalling a font is equivalent to deleting it, but this
is hardly ever necessary. So unless you seriously have over a thousand
fonts installed, there will be no benefit from removing them except
that you have to weed through them when choosing a font in a word
processor, etc.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Thanks Malke,
I thought it was one of the things that supposedly slowed windows down.
Glad that's not the case!
Sue

 

[Jon]

Thanks Malke,
I thought it was one of the things that supposedly slowed windows down.
Glad that's not the case!
Sue

If you right-click the 'c:\windows\fonts' directory and choose 'Properties',
you can see how much space they're taking up.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jon. That gives me the hard disk space they ae taking up but not the
system memroy which was my concern. Based on what Malke posted, I am
presuming it is a non-issue.

 

[NewScience]

The system caches Fonts that are being used for quick and ready access when
needed over and over.

C:\windows\system32\fntcache.dat

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for this explanation.
Sue

The system caches Fonts that are being used for quick and ready access when
needed over and over.

C:\windows\system32\fntcache.dat

 

[Laura Fredericks]

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So unless you seriously have over a thousand fonts installed, there
will be no benefit from removing them except that you have to weed
through them when choosing a font in a word processor, etc.

I have over a thousand fonts installed. 1,383, to be exact. And yes,
I usually use only a half-dozen or so, on a regular basis. ;-)

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