Unfortunately, both Windows and Macs usually 'forget' to remove these extra fonts when you get rid of the offending programs.

(In my experience, installing a half-dozen games can balloon your fonts by several hundred.) The other fonts - hundreds and hundreds of them - come from installations of Microsoft Office and desktop publishing software, from programs such as greeting card makers and, of course, from games. Windows and the Mac need 200 or more fonts for what's called 'the system' - for menus and notices on the screen, that sort of thing - and for the Web browser, which needs them for symbols, odd characters and common foreign languages. Excess fonts also take up valuable space. This can slow down your computer when it starts up and can make it sluggish every time you access a font in one of your programs. It's not unusual to find more than 2,000 fonts on a personal computer, most of them totally unnecessary. Having hundreds of fonts, the files that create various letter shapes, is no problem. But I've neglected another cause of slowdowns - font overload. I've written often about the need to clean out your PC or Mac to keep it running right. This can slow down your computer when it starts up and can make it sluggish every time you access a font in one of your programs.Īl Fasoldt's reviews and commentaries, continuously available online since 1983 It's not unusual to find more than 2,000 fonts on a personal computer. How to clean out unwanted fonts on a Windows PC or Apple Mac

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