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Old April 29th 17, 01:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Changed browser and noticed system fonts are making me unique

Jonas S Schneider wrote:

If there was a "font cleaner" like there is a "crap cleaner", that would be
ideal as all I want to do is pare down my fonts to whatever fonts are most
common on Windows XP systems today.


You can delete the fonts yourself. However, to know which ones to keep
that came included in Windows XP, find a list of them, like:

http://www.styopkin.com/articles/fon...led_winxp.html

However, since you installed software that also installed fonts, they
may puke when you delete their font. For example, they may use a font
in their toolbars or alongside icon and not having those fonts means the
next best matching font gets used which could be too big to fit or too
small it view easily. What you might want to try first is to hide all
the non-standard fonts. Right-click on a font and select Hide. Then
check if panopticlick can see those hidden fonts.

http://www.styopkin.com/articles/uninstall_fonts.html

Hiding is available in Windows 7 that I use. If hiding is not available
in Windows XP, see if you can drag the font to a temp folder. Then zip
up the folder and stow away the .zip file so you can recover a font that
you find later is still needed.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1768888,00.asp
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