Anyone have a list of fonts safe to delete. . .in windows xp. . .

[episodic]

Or better yet, a list not to delete?

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Or better yet, post in the right forum! 😉

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[newnameman]

Why?

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: newnameman
Why?

This.

 

[episodic]

memory leak

 

[amdhunter]

lol. Fonts are causing a memory leak? Please explain further.

 

[pontifex]

don't we have several tech forums that this might fit under?

 

[RU482]

I just took a leak on your font

 

[Mr Pickles]

A memory leak from fonts? That's recockulous.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: episodic
memory leak

😕 Incorrect and wrong forum.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
A memory leak from fonts? That's recockulous.

Actually if you dump a lot of fonts into a Win98 font folder, you can totally fuck the OS. Just by installing fonts.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
A memory leak from fonts? That's recockulous.

Actually if you dump a lot of fonts into a Win98 font folder, you can totally fuck the OS. Just by installing fonts.

so either episodic is running windows 98 or his 4gb hard drive is getting too full....that about sum it up?

 

[NoShangriLa]

ren wingding.ttf wingding.bak

del *.ttf

ren wingding.bak wingding.ttf

or

install *nix

 

[nordloewelabs]

if you're trying to use less memory because you have an old machine, you should try to focus on the "start-up processes" coz they are real trouble-makers. download "Autoruns" from Microsoft and try to disable as many start-up programs as possible. once i was called to fix a home computer that had over 70 processes showing on the TaskManager. i have a 9-year old 700Mhz desktop and a 5-year old 800Mhz TabletPC. both run with 22 processes.

also, consider: 1) re-installing Windows; 2) disabling visual effects; 3) using Windows Classic theme; 4) using a light antivirus software (eg: Free AntiVir); 5) using a light Linux distro (eg: Puppy Linux).

HOWEVER (and this is a big one!), if you are a gamer, you'd better buy more memory....or a even a new computer! anything else would just be too much hassle and yield too little result to your games!

here is the list of fonts i keep in my old machines. some of them are "symbol" fonts (Windings, Webdings, etc) and they *might* be used by the OS to draw buttons, scroll-bars, dialog-boxes or bullet-lists (in Word), so be careful.

good luck!

arial.ttf
arialbd.ttf
arialbi.ttf
ariali.ttf
ARIALN.TTF
ARIALNB.TTF
ARIALNBI.TTF
ARIALNI.TTF
ariblk.ttf
BSSYM7.TTF
comic.ttf
comicbd.ttf
cour.ttf
courbd.ttf
courbi.ttf
couri.ttf
lucon.ttf
l_10646.ttf
micross.ttf
modern.fon
MTCORSVA.TTF
OUTLOOK.TTF
REFSAN.TTF
REFSPCL.TTF
roman.fon
script.fon
symbol.ttf
tahoma.ttf
tahomabd.ttf
times.ttf
timesbd.ttf
timesbi.ttf
timesi.ttf
trebuc.ttf
trebucbd.ttf
trebucbi.ttf
trebucit.ttf
verdana.ttf
verdanab.ttf
verdanai.ttf
verdanaz.ttf
webdings.ttf
wingding.ttf
WINGDNG2.TTF
WINGDNG3.TTF
wst_engl.fon