Delete fonts

[Wilfredo]

Damm, I have installed alot of fonts there are probably over some thousands of fonts in my font map.

Photoshop stops at like letter D of the fonts cause it cant add any more.

So I want to delete them all, but its to hard.

I cant just delete the folder cause of windows, I cant just mark all and delete cause there are alot of standard fonts that cant be deleted.

How shall I do it ?

 

[Rob]

There might be a better way, but sort the icons into 'date modified' instead of name.

Then you can find the cut off point when you put them all in there. Simply delete any after the date of the day before you put them all in there, you should be able to drag over them all then.

Maybe somebody else has a better idea though

 

[Darren]

Use a font viewer. Some font viewers will let you preview the fonts in your Windows fonts folder, and easily let you delete them, by the click of a button.

The only other way around getting rid of some of the fonts, is to go through them one by one mannualy, in the fonts folder.

Why would you even think about deleting your Windows Font folder!? That would be silly, because then you wouldn't be able to view any text what-so-ever on your computer, as far as I know...

Thousands of fonts is ALOT of fonts to have in your Windows Font folder. Some programs actually have a limit as to what figure it can hold. (Read the mannual.) I have about 650 fonts installed (and another 8000 odd in another folder), however I'd recommend only having around 500 MAX fonts installed in your actual Windows Fonts folder.

 

[Wilfredo]

I just thought about deleting it so I could replace it with a standard.

But Its ok now.

 

[Anthony]

If you or anyone else needs a fontviewer, this may be what you're looking for:
http://www.creativebox.net/software/fontviewer.html