How delete PS fonts from Windows\Fonts?

[Frank Ganz]

We had installed Y&YTeX on one Windows 2000 machine where the CM fonts didn't install correctly. All CM fonts in the Windows' Fonts directory were 0 KB. The first thing we did was delete them on the command prompt and then, in a separate step, delete them in the registry.

(1) Make a copy of the registry
(2) Edit the registry (you can search for the fonts so you find the correct location)
(3) Save registry

The fonts should no longer show up in the fonts directory.

I only don't see the reason to not have the fonts in the fonts directory in the first place.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:00 AM
>To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
>Subject: How delete PS fonts from Windows\Fonts?
>
>
>When moving Y&Y to a new PC, I mistakenly let the installation script
>install the PostScript fonts -- all the .pfm and .pfb files -- to
>c:\Windows\Fonts on my Windows XP system.
>
>How do I delete them??
>
>I do NOT have any ATM installed (I will be installing ATM Deluxe 4.1).
>
>Trying to delete the fonts with File > Delete from the Fonts control
>panel gives Error Deleting File or Folder, "Cannot delete file: Cannot
>read from the source file or disk".
>
>Trying to delete them from a command line at first seemed to work,
>resulting in the .pfm files now all having size 0 KB, but still being
>there.
>
>P.S. The reason I want them deleted is that I keep all PS fonts in
>d:\psfonts.
>
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>Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
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