Fonts

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Aftermath

When I installed a greeting card program it installed a great number of
fonts. Since I no longer wanted to use this program, I uninstalled it. I
would like to remove all the extra fonts that were installed with this
program. I need to know what fonts were originally installed with Windows
2000 so that I will know what fonts to remove. I plan to move these extra
fonts to a separate folder so they would be available if needed.
 
Go to your W2k CD in Explorer, and search it for *.tt_

This will produce a list of all the fonts (all TTF in W2k native as far
as I know, but compressed on the CD as ".tt_" files) installed with W2k.
Using that list, and bearing in mind that many other apps (MS Office,
e.g.) install fonts also, you can weed out the greeting card fonts.

Personally I'd leave well enough alone, since you cite no compelling
reason to get rid of those fonts. To do accurately what you suggest
doing, if you think about it, would require a great deal of arduous
cross-checking among all installed apps. To illustrate - what if some
other app of yours has installed (and uses) some basic Truetype font not
in the W2k set? You may not want to remove that font.
 
To this I might add that I've never noticed any system or app
misbehavior due to too many fonts, except that a few years ago I did
encounter an extremely obscure Lotus 123 foible involving refusing to
perform certain operations when the number of W2k installed fonts
exceeded something like 1752. It was fun tracking that one down. Kind of
like discovering that the train crashed in Yonkers because somebody in
Albuquerque was eating spaghetti.
 
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