Well, at work, I formated and reinstalled XP on an AMD Athlon XP 3000. Got it set up, had some odd BSOD's, bad PSU. Swapped it out with a new PSU, did my usual tweaks, and he was thrilled with his 'new' toy. All was well when I left for class.

Now he calls me tonight saying he installed 15K, yes, 15,000 fonts on it and it is super slow, and he somehow changed WinXP's default font to one that is not English. So short of another reinstall, how do you fix this? New one to me! I found Font Frenzy on MajorGeeks, which is supposed to help with a large number of fonts. How the heck do you change WinXP's font?

My guess is to boot into safemode and see what I can find out. ANY help would be greatly appreciated!

Have a good one!

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one of the fonts MS uses was overwrote with a same name font but different language, youd have to find the fonts windows uses and overwrite the files, sounds kinda funny actually, thats my $.02 but im not positive thats the issue

My guess is that the 15K font installer changed the default fonts for him. If it has an uninstaller I would try that first if you can work your way through the windows visually.
Maybe see if there were any system restore points to revert back to?

For future reference, if you want to use any more than ~300 fonts with Windows, use font management software such as Extensis Suitcase or Adobe Type Manager... it will save you a LOT of headaches.

Thanks for the info! Well, at least the guy thinks big instead of small! What the heck would you do with that many fonts? Ahh well, if worse comes to worse I will just format/reinstall. Some people use Net Nanny, I need freaking Boss Nanny!

And thanks for the links godfoot.

Have a good one!

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15.000 fonts, you could spend half your life changing them and still not see them all.

If you can not find and delete all that useless freeware download(which it probably is)then try to go the system restore route back to your original setup.Jo

If after you get his rig fixed , he wants fonts , you should show him how to d/l them and add them directly to the fonts folder. 1500 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many 150 is more like it

I forgot to post this, but a restore point got him back up and screwing up the computer! Ah... I mean using his computer!

Thanks for the replies, I have restore off on my WinXP rig, I forget that sometimes usefull tool.

15K fonts? Not thanks for me, but he wants them.

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What does he need 15k Fonts for?...It must take up a couple megs of hard drive space too..

Anything above 400 fonts and your asking for trouble no matter how they are installed. There is a limit to the fonts you can install, the limit is actually determined by file name length and registry, not the actual number of fonts. Once you hit that point any additional fonts you install become useless. And your system will suffer way before you hit the limit.

Easy fix would be to copy normal system fonts from a good machine, delete everything in the fonts folder and install a fresh copy directly to the fonts folder. Another problem is crap fonts that come on CD's like 1500 fonts. They tend to be poorly made and often conflict with good fonts from reputable foundry's such as Adobe, Agfa, Linotype etc.

Buying fonts like 15K fonts is like buying your spam protection and registry cleaner from a spyware vendor with spam advertising, it's stooopid. In my business, we charge extra for idiots who use crapware fonts.

Like godfoot said, always use a font utility when working with a large number of fonts. You can set it to unload fonts on reboot keeping your system clean.

Quote: Originally Posted by AntiM In my business, we charge extra for idiots who use crapware fonts.

I wish I could have done that when I worked in the industry, along with charging 50 times as much for those that insist on using M$ Publisher and Corel Draw