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XP font help. Please?!

skullerello

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skullerello
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I know this is going to make me appear awefully dense, but here goes.
I have no idea how to impliment fonts I've downloaded and saved. It use to be much easier in Windows ME. There was simply an icon in Control Panel called fonts; click on that, save your new font, and that font then would be available to all the applications. But, now with Windows XP, I'm lost.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
As Alphaba said, then reboot to ensure the system recognises the new fonts.
 
Or if you forget the path in future, you can get to it from Control Panel->Fonts.

You shouldn't need to reboot; just restart any applications you're running and they'll pick up the new fonts.
 
Penny said:
Or if you forget the path in future, you can get to it from Control Panel->Fonts.

You shouldn't need to reboot; just restart any applications you're running and they'll pick up the new fonts.
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Windows isn't an application?
 
Darat said:
No it's an OS - What most people mean when they say "Windows" is in fact the desktop shell program - explorer. ;)
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Yes, that's what I said in my post above. And it's a good idea to reboot after you install new fonts if you want said program to recognise them.
 
Darat said:
No it's an OS - What most people mean when they say "Windows" is in fact the desktop shell program - explorer. ;)
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Nope.

It used to be that in Ye Olden Days of Yonder - Win 3.11 and such. Nowadays, it is a full-blown OS.
 
CFLarsen said:
Nope.

It used to be that in Ye Olden Days of Yonder - Win 3.11 and such. Nowadays, it is a full-blown OS.
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Claus re-read what I posted, you''ve misunderstood it.

As I said what most people mean when they refer to Windows is the graphical UI that ships with Windows and this shell is called explorer.
 
The time it took to reboot a PC XT with DOS 2.10 was still shorter than booting XP today...

And if you want to talk about "open" system... DOS was as "open" as it could possibly get... You could wade in there with your jackboots and all...
 
Darat said:
Claus re-read what I posted, you''ve misunderstood it.

As I said what most people mean when they refer to Windows is the graphical UI that ships with Windows and this shell is called explorer.
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Hmpf.

How do you know what "most people" mean? :p

E?
 
CFLarsen said:
Anecdotal evidence.

Tsk, tsk....
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Nope not anecdotal evidence, tk's response is there for anyone to read and the other part of my evidence is "evidence from authority". And remember an appeal to authority is only a fallacy if the person is not an authority.

















;)
 
You shouldn't have to restart Windows to have it recognize new fonts. You might have to restart a program that reads the font list, but not the entire OS.
 
OK, tell me how to do this without rebooting then. I just downloaded a font from a freefonts website and dragged it into the Fonts folder. I then went to Display settings in the Control Panel, selected a setting to change the font of, and the new font was not in the list.
 
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