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Overinstalled Fonts... By about 18,000... give or take
I've searched...
So my all too thoughtful girlfriend decided that my way of using a font viewer to preview then install was just too much extra work, getting in the way of her valuable learning (read: random clicking without actually paying attention making the same mistakes stumbling onto the same tools only to forget to save, and all...). A quick search for "*.ttf" files, hit Ctrl-A, then did a right click > Install and... the joy of 18,000 fonts. And I thought she wasn't paying attention. She then noticed a very notable decrease in performance, most notably Photoshop (Oh the irony! ), and proceeded to delete as many of them as possible (Ctrl-A, delete, yes-to-all... yes-to-all, and all). This compounded the problem because she managed to delete almost all of the fonts and now there's widespread fallout...
It's as far reaching as the Autoplay pop-up and the WAN Status popup (see pic) appearing with substitute fonts as well as changed point sizes, and various other small noticed changes. Photoshop went from not even loading to crashing almost instantly. I'm not sure what caused more damage, the install or hasty deletion.
It all seems cosmetic at this point, start-up and Photoshop CS4(re-install, but the initial blue page is in some random-micro-font and the menus are still different fonts) are fine again, so I'm looking for a cheat so I don't have to go Reg sniping.
So now I'm here (great site BTW!) hoping there's something new I can learn (OEM Font Pack, Restore OEM Font Utility, Specific Registry changes??) other than just doing a fresh install, which I'm not object to...
I'm certainly not a Pro, but a fairly experienced user dating back to 286/MS-DOS (Got 1.44 BootDisk?)
7600 Ultimate x86, Single User Account
Dell Inspiron e1705 Laptop
T2250 Core Duo 1.73GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2Mb L2 (T7300 on the way...)
2Gb RAM
320Gb Fujitsu 5400rpm