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01-10-2008, 11:28 AM
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Could someone please tell me where I can find the font files on my Windows Vista Home Edition DVD? I have 7000+ fonts installed on my system and want to remove all but the Windows default fonts. I figure that the only way to do this, is to delete every font from the fonts folder and then copy the default Windows fonts back to the fonts folder. In theory this should be possible, as previously on the Windows XP discs you could restore fonts, I managed it on one occassion.       |
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01-10-2008, 02:01 PM
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| One way to do it would be to delete those fonts you might be able to delete and then run a Vista repair install. However, that option will only install the Vista fonts, not those fonts installed by other applications, like Word, Excel and so forth.
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01-10-2008, 02:07 PM
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| Thank you for your suggestion, although I really do intend to avoid a reinstallation of any nature regarding the Operating System itself. Had I been prepared to do this, I would not have asked for help. Cheers for your response though buddy. |
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01-12-2008, 03:11 PM
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| I used 7zip for this, I am not sure if winrar will work, but it may. If you need 7zip it is available for free here: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html Open 7zip and browse to the vista install disk, open the folder "sources" look for a file called "install.wim" (size=2.24GB)and open it then browse to 1>windows>fonts and extract the folder to your desired location(it is compressed to 157mb, but decompressed will become 288mb.) You now have all of the vista default fonts to replace the others, just be advised that if you have programs installed that require fonts not included with vista and you delete them the programs may no longer function correctly and you may need to reinstall them.  |
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01-12-2008, 11:25 PM
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| Welcome. Try Control Panel > Fonts.
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