Hanksy Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Im on Windows 7 and I inserted a fonts cd, which installed all 4,000 to the fonts folder. Now some programs are taking ages to open. I want to clear the font folder out to have just the ones needed in there. How do I do it, without deleting any fonts that I need and dont know i need! What will happen if I delete one i shouldnt! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidbobs Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Have you checked the Programs and Features list to see if its installed it as a package and can just be removed like a program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanksy Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Have you checked the Programs and Features list to see if its installed it as a package and can just be removed like a program? not in unistall remove programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmie92 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Open Control Panel (in all items view) Click on the Fonts icon then just select the individual fonts you wish to remove and click delete on the toolbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidbobs Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Open the fonts folder, Right click an empty space > sort by > more > tick date added/date created, highlight all the ones added today (or whenever you installed them) and delete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 And if you want to really tidy up but keep the ones that came with 7, create a second Fonts folder and name it Fonts2 - copy all the garbage fonts you are unlikely to use into this second folder and just keep 2 or 3 key fonts in Fonts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanksy Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 And if you want to really tidy up but keep the ones that came with 7, create a second Fonts folder and name it Fonts2 - copy all the garbage fonts you are unlikely to use into this second folder and just keep 2 or 3 key fonts in Fonts. This is whay i want to do, but what are the "key" fonts I need to keep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VideoPro Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Im on Windows 7 and I inserted a fonts cd, which installed all 4,000 to the fonts folder. Now some programs are taking ages to open... It will. Everything that uses fonts, like word processing, mail etc will try to load the entire fonts folder to RAM. Shame really 'cos 3999 of them are just sitting there using memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanksy Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Open the fonts folder, Right click an empty space > sort by > more > tick date added/date created, highlight all the ones added today (or whenever you installed them) and delete Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Ive tried alsorts, including system restore! I just didnt know how to find the dates under "more" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 This is whay i want to do, but what are the "key" fonts I need to keep? Basically, just choose the ones you are likely to use the most. It's basically down to you. The only issue you might have (never tried this so others might be able to give a definitive answer) is that if you created a document with a font you decided you no longer wanted to live on the system at boot time is that your document might not open because it will be searching the Font folder when displaying a document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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