Is your PC slow - 3 Move out unused fonts

This was a completely new and surprising one for me. I had no idea that fonts, the number of them, had anything to do with PC speed. I was also surprised to find that my PC might apparently load new fonts depending upon websites I visit. I’m not sure about this, but that is the impression I got from somewhere.

So I’m advised to remove unnecessary fonts from my C:\WINDOWS/Fonts folder. My first concern of course was – did this mean that applications like Word would no longer have access to a large list of fonts. Well, yes, that’s what it means. But if you only use your system for basic typing and not for fancy design work, its enough to retain a basic set of fonts as I will explain below.

Anyway, the more fonts you remove from the fonts folder, the more the system resources that get freed up. I’m not sure how all this works and what it means. What I did was, in C:WINDOWS I first created a new folder called Fontbackup. Then I moved most of the fonts out of the C:WINDOWS/Fonts folder to this folder. The only fonts I retained were the entire family of Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Symbol and WingDings fonts. I was also advised to retail MS Serif and Sans Serif but I couldn’t find these on my system.

Now, when I open Word or Excel, these are the only fonts I see in the Fonts drop down menu. If you want to restore these fonts so that programs like Word can use them, go to Control Panel – Fonts and move the fonts from the Fontsbackup folder to this folder.