Uninstall, restart and the font is again. For example, let's suppose you will uninstall a fonts such as "Arial Narrow", restart and the font is installed. And sometimes the same font is installed twice or more, although theorically it's not possible. That means there was hidden fonts that system can't handle. Uninstall 500, so it's supposed to had 1000, but after restart the system had more free resources, so it shows now 1800 fonts. For example, I remember a user who had around 1500 installed fonts. btw it's supposed that Windows 32 bits can handle up to 720 fonts, and athough 64 bits can handle more memory, and therefore more fonts, sometimes it can cause troubles. Usually, not, it's not an excessive amount. BFN can not identify and skip the fonts which are part of the standard windows install, and removing these might cause problems in windows or other programs that presume those fonts to be available.
Font manufacturers (and hence also microsoft and/or BFN) incorrectly classify many fonts as serif or sans serif even though they are not, so you can accidentally remove fonts that you might have wanted to keep.I could give you a procedure for removing "fonts like arial" or "fonts like times" using BFN - but there are two problems with doing it: There is discussion in another thread about ideas for enhancing or replacing BFN and I think that could be a good feature for it. There is not a simple "uninstall everything except the fonts that come with windows" command, which would be a good way to start. Tidying the fonts folder is not an easy job.
I would say not to worry about it unless performance is unexpectedly slow or, you are having frequent crashes which are not resolved by emptying the %temp% folder. There is not a magic number and many people run with 1000 fonts or more and claim not to have trouble. But recent versions of windows together with newer computers with faster processors and more physical memory should be capable of more. Historically, we have suggested trying to keep installed fonts below 400.
0 kommentar(er)
