Roman commented on my article about removing fonts to increase system startup speed yesterday mentioning the free software Font Frenzy which could remove all non system fonts with the click of a button. This is way more elegant than the suggested manual way that I came up with yesterday which is why I would like to write about Font Frenzy today.
A quick recap: Fonts slow down system startup. The difference between 1000 and 100 installed fonts is almost 25 seconds which is huge. Windows XP installs 44 fonts and all other fonts are added by other applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop and Gimp.
Besides offering the ability to remove all non system fonts in Windows XP which is called DeFrenzy in Font Frenzy it offers the functionality to make a snapshot of your current fonts and backup them.
The so called FrenzyMan is a font manager which displays all fonts in a list giving the user options to install, delete, add new, unload and view the selected fonts. What I really like about Font Frenzy is that it does not need to be installed and can be run from any location on your hard drive.
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shouldn’t that be font frenzy ;) ? Don’t worry, its early :P
Chris
hehe you are right, fixed it.
i don’t know that fonts can slow down systems. thanks for the info!
does anyone have a list of Vista’s standard fonts? I’ve searched but can’t seem to find one
Looked up “remove non system fonts” in google and this useful page came up. Thanks for posting this!
I recently installed several fonts in Vista and have had a significant decrease in speed from my machine from any programs that utilize fonts (design, word processing, email etc.). When I try to remove them as an administrator, it says I don’t have permission. I try to change permissions for my user account by right-clicking on the font itself but the option boxes are inactive and a group titled “trusted installer” seems to now have full access while mine remains limited. I’ve read up on the particular series of chinese fonts to find that they may have included an embedded trojan. My machine scans as clean but the performance is still slowed significantly and I cannot remove the files. Is there any means of bypassing Vista’s permissions or a command prompt that might allow me to manually remove unwanted fonts? My thanks to anyone who can help.