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Fonts essential to Windows?

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by cemetery mike

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Having just received the Extensis Suitcase 9 for Windows, I am puzzled to decifer what exact fonts are essential to Windows (and thereby, the ones I should leave in the Windows/Fonts folder, with the remainder of my collection contained in this Suitcase). How do I make this determination? Is there a list somewhere?

How many fonts are too many for this Windows/Fonts folder? I'm at 334 right now.

Thanks all.

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by jonno112

There is no limitation on the number of fonts which can be installed, although the boot time will be increased due to the requirement to read the information for all those fonts while the system is starting up.

I got the above statement of a web site (of course) but another said approximatly 1000 fonts.

As for original default fonts.
Check this site.

http://www.xvsxp.com/fonts/

Hope that helps buddy.

by jaqui

even xp doesn't like font numbers higher than 512. it says that some will not be available.

but you can use any number when you have a 3rd party font controller installed.

by cemetery mike

After reading both your answers, I'll just leave those fonts I currently have in the Windows folder alone, and add all my additional ones to the Suitcase folder. My number (334) sounds like everything should work fine - and stay that way. Thanks all.

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