How to Restore your PC’s Original Set of Fonts

Aug 30 2010

How to Restore your PC’s Original Set of Fonts

Posted by admin in Computers

You may not notice it but every time you install new software, especially document and design-related programs, you also install new sets of fonts to your computer.

Adobe, for example, has several fonts different from Windows. When you visit foreign websites, such those from Japan, South Korea, China, and Thailand, you are sometimes required to setup new fonts in order for some of its pages to load.

After installation, these fonts are integrated into the operating system itself. Because of this, they add to the overall Windows boot time. This is one of the primary reasons why old computers take time to load when turned on.

Moreover, unnecessary fonts eat up hard-disk space. They also over populate font menus, so instead of just having 100 default fonts in MS Word for instance, you end up scrolling more than 400 fonts (and most of them are redundant).

You can restore your PC’s original fonts by using the FontFrenzy software. This program can remove, save, and backup all fonts not installed by your PC’s operating system. If you want to bring back all removed fonts, you can reinstate them in just three clicks. It’s that easy.

You can get FontFrenzy at http://www.sdsoftware.org/default.asp?id=5936. Click the computer icon to download the software.

Next, press the Save File button.

Double-click the setup file to launch the installer.

Click Next > in Setup Wizard’s Welcome page and follow the remaining installation procedures.

When the installation is complete, check the Run FontFrenzy 1.51 checkbox and press Finish.

This is the software’s primary interface. On the right side of the window, you can see all the computer’s installed fonts, which totals to 576.

In a straightforward manner, if you want to remove all fonts not installed by your default OS, begin by clicking the Defrenzy button.

Next, hit Defrenzy Now.

As a backup and safety measure in case you decide to bring back all deleted fonts, you will be asked where you want to store all removed fonts. After browsing the location, press OK.

Next, enter a snapshot name. This is the unique caption of the soon-to-be deleted fonts. Press OK.

Wait for a few seconds and all non OS-installed fonts will be completely removed from your computer.

You will see this message when the deletion is complete. If you want to see all removed fonts, just hit the View Log button.

The log file will list all deleted fonts. For this illustration, FontFrenzy eradicated 323 fonts. The program cleared approximately 40 percent of all installed fonts.

If you want to backup your currently installed fonts, hit FrenzySnap and then

click the Save Snapshot button.

If you want to bring back all deleted fonts, just press Refrenzy.

Select which font set you want to reinstate and click the Restore button.

Deleting fonts one by one is easy. You’ll just have to press FrenzyMan, select the fonts you want to remove, and tick Delete Selected Fonts. After this, click Select.