Removing font enties from registry (for performance)

[Andy]

I understand there are two ways to remove fonts in XP:

(1) Drag the font file from C:\WINDOWS\FONTS to another folder. I am
told that the font is no longer available to XP and will not be loaded
but that the registry entries for the font are still in place.

(2) Use the File > Uninstall option on a font file. This way the
registry info is also removed.

Is there a performance advantage to doing it the second way or is the
first way just as good from a performance point of view?

 

[DanS]

I understand there are two ways to remove fonts in XP:

(1) Drag the font file from C:\WINDOWS\FONTS to another folder. I am
told that the font is no longer available to XP and will not be loaded
but that the registry entries for the font are still in place.

(2) Use the File > Uninstall option on a font file. This way the
registry info is also removed.

Is there a performance advantage to doing it the second way or is the
first way just as good from a performance point of view?

Was that one of the tips from the thousands of pages showing the same "10
ways to speed up Windows' tweak lists ?

While that MAY have had some bearing on Win3.1(1)/Win95, over 10 years ago,
I doubt that it would make much of a difference, if any, today. With CPU
clock rates at 25-30 times what it was in 1995, and 4 or 5 generation's of
processor architecture later, that same processing takes only a tiny
fraction of the time it did back then.

Of course, it didn't make a difference back then either really, at least on
the 386 PC I had w/8 megs of RAM trying to run Win95.....p a i n f u l l y
slow.