Too many fonts

["Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

>Back on 2 Sep or thereabouts, Lars Bradley posted, in part --
>>>
>I need help: I've got about 930 fonts installed on win 95 and usually
>install more programs taht end up "dumping" more fonts. The problem is that
>some applications won't open because I've go too many fonts.
><<

(I tried to respond to Lars directly, but the email bounced.)

>Hi, Lars.
>
>I was searching through the Techwr-L archives looking for a different
>font-related topic when I stumbled on this message you posted earlier this
>month. You probably have received an answer by now, but just in case you
>haven't, I thought I'd reply.
>
There is a limited amount of space in the Windows Registry to store font
>*names*  (including the whole path). It is the actual names of the fonts that
>limits the number of them you can have installed. I ran into this problem
>almost two years ago. I deleted a lot of the fonts that I seldom if ever
>used, and I even renamed some of the longer-named fonts to shorter names.
>This solved the problem.
>
>This problem is also discussed in the current issue of Microsoft Magazine on
>page 27, in their "Solutions" section. The magazine is on the web at
>http://www.microsoft.com/magazine/   I've never looked at the magazine on the
>web, but I'm sure you'll locate the article easily once you get there.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Bev Parks
>parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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>

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