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Mulreay

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Re: Font folder won't open
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2009, 05:00:51 PM »
Can you please give us the file name of the fonts you added.
Also can you give me the exact file location of fonts e.g c:\desktop\blahblah
Thanks we will endeavour to help..

SonyaH

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    Re: Font folder won't open
    « Reply #16 on: September 21, 2009, 05:59:17 PM »
    The fonts I added were:

    STJEDISE.TTF, Starjout.ttf, Starjedi.ttf, Stjldbl2.ttf, Starjhol.ttf, Strjmono.ttf, Strjmono.ttf

    The location? Um...the first folder on the list after searching for "Fonts" (the one I assumed was the correct one) just says, In Folder= Control Panel. The folder right below it that says Fonts, is in folder C:\WINNT. I can open that one and it has fonts in it, some TT but a lot that have an "A" on it with a .fon extension. I don't know if this is the one I am supposed to be looking at. The properties say, 75.0 MB (78,722,423 bytes) 60.2 MB (63,134,524 bytes) (I tried compressing the files to see if that was the problem) Contains: 274 files, 0 folders.

    There's a couple other folders that say Fonts on them, C:\Program Files\Common Files, C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib


    Salmon Trout

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    Re: Font folder won't open
    « Reply #17 on: September 22, 2009, 12:16:16 AM »
    We are talking about Windows XP here, I trust? Because the C:\WINNT folder is what you get with Windows 2000. I think if you are running XP your installation could be an upgrade from Windows 2000. (Clean installs of XP get C:\WINDOWS as a default) Dunno if this is relevant...


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      Re: Font folder won't open
      « Reply #18 on: September 22, 2009, 12:28:57 AM »
      c:\winnt\fonts is where you should be putting them.
      http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960
      I think you're right Salmon Trout, must be some sort of downgrade from W2K.

      SonyaH

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        Re: Font folder won't open
        « Reply #19 on: September 22, 2009, 08:07:43 AM »
        That might be so. I got my computer from a friend who works at a community college after the motherboard on my old computer went dead.

        So....where does that put us? I still can't get into the Fonts folder from Control Panel. There isn't anything in the File command to install new fonts.

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        Re: Font folder won't open
        « Reply #20 on: September 22, 2009, 08:46:24 AM »
        Does it work in safe mode?
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          Re: Font folder won't open
          « Reply #21 on: September 22, 2009, 10:01:13 AM »
          Nope. *sigh* I'll probably have to have someone come out and look at it.

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            Re: Font folder won't open
            « Reply #22 on: September 22, 2009, 02:44:26 PM »
            Copy & paste your fonts into your C:\winnt\fonts directory.

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              Re: Font folder won't open
              « Reply #23 on: September 22, 2009, 03:35:03 PM »
              I did and they don't show up when I go into Word or Photoshop.

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                Re: Font folder won't open
                « Reply #24 on: September 22, 2009, 03:46:57 PM »
                I was afraid of that, try re-booting you never know your luck.
                I suspect your OS is slightly crippled being from a community college, I've come across this type of thing before.
                There's a lot to be said for having a genuine and complete OS disk from Microsoft.