Clear all non system fonts automatically

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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Tags: font list, font manager, fonts, remove fonts
Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

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9 Responses to “Clear all non system fonts automatically”

1. Chris says:

   August 16, 2007 at 9:15 am

   shouldn’t that be font frenzy ;) ? Don’t worry, its early :P

   Chris
2. Martin says:

   August 16, 2007 at 9:33 am

   hehe you are right, fixed it.
3. syahid ali says:

   August 16, 2007 at 10:11 am

   i don’t know that fonts can slow down systems. thanks for the info!
4. tim says:

   August 16, 2007 at 2:01 pm

   does anyone have a list of Vista’s standard fonts? I’ve searched but can’t seem to find one
5. sp says:

   January 27, 2009 at 2:41 am

   Looked up “remove non system fonts” in google and this useful page came up. Thanks for posting this!

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