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Big problem with fonts and crashing >_<
Not sure if I'm in the right section, but I figure if I'm not, someone here can point me in the right direction.
Note: This morning, I noticed that mIRC (my IRC client of choice) was running a bit slow (locking up every 30 secs or so, for a few seconds). This is just a tidbit of information, as I'm not sure it's related to my issue.
I'm working on a new logo for a product I'm designing and decided that Gotham wasn't right, nor were any of the fonts in my system. So, I moseyed on over to The Pirate Bay and downloaded 2GB worth of fonts (65,000 of them!) and installed almost all of them (59,173). It took about twenty minutes but succeeded with no errors.
I then noticed my computer was running a bit laggy, and thought, "Well, the fonts probably just need a restart to load into memory properly," so I restarted. After waiting... who knows... ten minutes for my computer to boot, it took only a few minutes before my desktop became completely unresponsive (except mouse movement)... then finally the mouse cratered also.
It was at this point that I noticed I had only 117MB of space left on C (whoops!). I quickly axed some stuff off there and got it to a clean 7GB, which I planned to resolve further at a later point. This was not the issue as only minutes later, it crashed again.
First thought: Let's get everything I need off my C drive (I have D, E, and F drives also) so I can reformat or take it in to the computer techs if necessary. Managed to reboot and get a few important things off before it hung again. (Worth noting I tried a third time, in Safe Mode.)
So, I grabbed my Windows disc and threw it in, booted to it, and tried to restore--sadly, the ONLY restore was about a half hour AFTER I installed the fonts (when I was uninstalling stuff). Restored with no issue, but the crash came back.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to get rid of the fonts from my harddrive. But, in both Safe Mode and otherwise, the font list does not load. I open the folder, it loads... loads... green bar progresses... and it finally loads--all of zero fonts. So I can't remove them.
I quickly downloaded AMP Font Viewer, hoping it could delete some fonts for me. (Note: Unlike Windows, it DID find the fonts.) However, I noticed that, not only did it take ages to load the fonts to a point where I could use the program, it could not batch delete fonts. It would take far too long to delete 59,173 fonts one at a time, so I gave up on that.
TL;DR: So here I am. Here are my questions:
* Are the 60,000 fonts the culprit for the slowdown/crashes?
* Is there a way to remove all the non-system fonts? (This has to be quick, say, 2min or less, and cannot rely on opening the Fonts folder.)
* Do I need to reformat? (Last resort.)
Thanks to everyone in advance... this has made for a heckuva' long day.
Specs (ASUS G73JW-A1 laptop): Core i7 (2.6GHz, I think), nVidia 460M 1.5GB GPU, 2x 500GB HDD (each partitioned to make C-F drives), Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit. Anything else, just ask.