Fonts loading at startup

[Rob graham]

Is there some way to have just a minimum selection of fonts loading at
start-up but keeping another folder of fonts that are available when needed?
I believe I'm right in saying that at start-up all the fonts load, slowing
down the start-up if there's a large number of them. Most of them don't get
used on a daily basis and it seems pointless having this happen.

Rob Graham

 

[Guest]

WindowsXP HE has about 138 fonts in its default library. Do you know which
ones are used and in which application? If you can answer that question, you
can drag&drop the ones not used to a special folder you can create, thus
saving the loading time. The load time for these fonts at boot is probably
less then one second. Think it over..............???

 

[Rob graham]

WindowsXP HE has about 138 fonts in its default library. Do you know
which
ones are used and in which application? If you can answer that question,
you
can drag&drop the ones not used to a special folder you can create, thus
saving the loading time. The load time for these fonts at boot is
probably
less then one second. Think it over..............???

Is it possible to access the Windows default fonts? If I could list them
then I could pull all the others out, but I've now got just one font file
full of fonts!

I suppose I could rename the current font folder but how do I get the
Windows default fonts again?

Also, if I rename the current font file and then later want to access those
fonts can I direct Word, for example, to look in that folder or will it
always just look in the official Fonts folder?

Rob

 

[Malke]

Is there some way to have just a minimum selection of fonts loading at
start-up but keeping another folder of fonts that are available when
needed? I believe I'm right in saying that at start-up all the fonts
load, slowing down the start-up if there's a large number of them.
Most of them don't get used on a daily basis and it seems pointless
having this happen.

Rob Graham

Actually, you are incorrect. Having too many fonts on Win9x/ME did slow
your startup, but XP handles fonts differently. Having lots of fonts on
XP will not impact your startup time at all. If you have thousands of
fonts and are having a hard time using them, then certainly a
third-party font management program (Adobe makes one) would be good.
But you can have lots of fonts in XP without worrying.

Malke

 

[Gord Dibben]

Rob

For info only because I think you should heed Malke's advice.

Fonts supplied with Windows.............

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm


Gord

 

[Rob graham]

Rob

For info only because I think you should heed Malke's advice.

Fonts supplied with Windows.............

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm


Gord

Thanks Gord and Malke. That's taken a small weight off my mind.

Rob

 

[Malke]

Rob graham wrote:

Thanks Gord and Malke. That's taken a small weight off my mind.

Rob

You're most welcome. Enjoy your day.

Malke