How to delete exotic MS fonts?

[Guest]

This really bothers me: there are lots of fonts in my fonts folder which I
will never use: but I cannot delete them, because they were installed by
"Trusted Installer" who is the only one with full rights. If I (=
administrator) want to change that and allow my account to have full rights
for that file ,too, I just get the message that the changes were not saved.
I just can't imagine that fonts like "DaunPenh", "Mongolian Baiti", "Nyala",
"Sylfaen", "Batang & BatangChe" etc are system fonts without which my
computer wouldn't function any more.
So: How in the world can I get rid of them?? So that I do not have to scroll
through all of them e.g. in my WORD fonts display, when I want to format a
text?

hadila

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hadila

Most of these are not MS fonts, they are installed by the Adobe Acrobat
Reader application.

You can still delete these fonts, but you must take ownership and change
permissions on each individual font before you can do this.

Right click the font file and select Properties.
Select the Security Tab.
Click the Advanced Button.
Click the Owner Tab.
Click the Edit Button.
In the 'Change owner" section, select your administrator account.
Click Apply, click OK twice.

This will return you to the Security Tab.

Select your administrator account in the 'Group or user names' section.
Click the Edit Button.
Select your administrator account again.
Place a check mark in the Full Control check box.
Click OK twice.

You can now right click and delete the font file.

Throughout this process, you will get several permission prompts.

Before you ask, yes this process is long and complicated, but it is
necessary to maintain the integrity of the system.

 

[Guest]

Hi, Ronnie,

WOW - it DID work!
Well, now I have a handful to do - deleting a hundred or so fonts
individually, applying this, as you admit, long and complicated process to
each font one after the other...
But at least I'll get rid of them

Thanks!
hadila

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hadila

Your welcome, enjoy.

 

[MaxWedge426]

This didn't work for me. I still get the "this font is being used by
another program" message. Ideas?

 

[Jamie]

This didn't work for me. I still get the "this font is being used by
another program" message. Ideas?

I can't even get that far! I supposedly have administrator rights and full
control but when I click the fonts folder properties tab, I only get
<GENERAL> & <PREVIOUS VERSIONS>. Frustrating, since it's a home computer and
I am the only user!

 

[Jamie]

After 3 days of screwing around with everything, I finally have full
permission to the font folder and access is still denied!

MSFT deserves credit for coming up with supreme security that ties the
user's hands yet leaves it vulnerable to anybody on the internet.

That's it for me! I'll be buying a Mac tomorrow for my design work and will
use this clunker for its intended purpose...games!

 

[kwardill]

Hi, Ronnie,

I tried the process you described below. However, when I actually try
to delete the file, I get a response "This action can't be completed
because the file is open in another program". Needless to say, all
other programs are closed. If I click "Cancel', a small progress box
appears showing it is 'deleting', but the file is not deleted. (Vista
Home) - any ideas please?

Thanks
KW

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Malaise

You posted this message as a new thread, so we have no way of knowing
exactly what issue you are referring to? You need to post as a 'Reply' to
the message you talking about.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


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[Vistahomeuser]

Hi Ronnie -
I use Vista Home with MS 2007 and was able to delete the exotic fonts using
the method below, however after doing so I received an error message when
opening Word "There is insufficient memory or disk space. Word cannot display
the requested font." Memory/Disk space are not the issue. Any Ideas? I
restored the system.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

If you had just removed Adobe Acrobat's fonts. I would suggest removing and
reinstalling Acrobat. However apparently, among those you deleted were one
or more font files that are part of Windows Unicode support. (E.g. Batang &
BatangChe) Not good. As you have discovered, "the system" expects them to be
available. Granted, the error message is not particularly well-directed.

Either develop a list of missing system fonts and reinstall them or do a
full system repair install. After that install you will have to either allow
system update automatically "do its thing" and restore the updates removed
by the system repair routines or go to the update site and initiate the
process yourself. The latter is recommended.

If you were a friend of mine, I would now be suggesting that there are two
parts of your anatomy that you find indistinguishable one from the other. If
it is any comfort, however slight, you are not the first and probably not
the last to do exactly the same thing.

Good luck and all the best.
--

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007