Re: Problem deleting fonts from Windows Fonts folder

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From: Aandi Inston
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:41

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>I'm trying to understand where Windows desktop fonts come from. I now have ugly serif fonts on most Windows dialog boxes. I once had nice sans-serif fonts everywhere.  

They come from the fonts on your system. Windows doesn't do anything
magic or different for the desktop; if you remove fonts it needs it
will display something different.
>
>Is there some way to get back the default fonts that were used when I first installed Windows 98? 

Probably a quick reinstall of Windows is easiest.
>
>I guess I'll just have to give up on using ATM Font Manager. 

Why?

>No one can tell me how to delete the fonts in the Windows Font folder 

Why do you want to? I never did.


Aandi Inston

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