Uninstalling fonts

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Just installed some graphic software(xara3d) which installed me a plenty of
ugly fonts (65files), the most of them are absolutely not necessary. If each
font writes it settings to Registry I should have extremelly littered
Registry. How this can affect system performance? If I'll remove all these
fonts, one by one, will this remove also the corresponding registry entries?

Thanks,
S.
 
Don't give it another thought, "too many" fonts was only a problem under
the "DOS based" Windows operating systems.
 
SANTANDER said:
Just installed some graphic software(xara3d) which installed me a plenty of
ugly fonts (65files), the most of them are absolutely not necessary. If each
font writes it settings to Registry I should have extremelly littered
Registry. How this can affect system performance?
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Probably won't. I'd say definitely, but I'm not sure. How many fonts
TOTAL do you have installed?

The number of installed fonts USED to be important, but with today's
hi-speed machines with tons of RAM, it's no long a worthwhile
consideration.
If I'll remove all these fonts, one by one, will this remove also the
corresponding registry entries?
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Can't hurt to try. You don't want them anyway, right?
 
The number of fonts you have installed will not affect the performance of
your system at all, but it may take applications that use your installed
fonts (Word, Photoshop, etc.) another second or two to load because they are
loading the fonts into the Fonts menu. I have several hundred fonts
installed and Photoshop takes maybe another 1.5 - 2 seconds to load than it
did before I installed them all. Almost unnoticable. Don't bother removing
them, I'd say, but if you really think they're ugly, simply remove them from
C:\Windows\Fonts. They are 'uninstalled' by Windows when you delete them and
their registry entries are removed.

JM
 
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