Temporary Windows Fonts

[BrianG]

My Toshiba laptop seems to be taking longer to boot these days so I decided to do some disk cleaning and removing unwanted programs.
One thing I was aware that slowed the boot process was having lots of fonts installed.
I have a font manager program called "Font Explorer", and this reports I have a large number of "temporary" Windows fonts installed.
If I try to delete these fonts using Font Explorer, I get the message:
"The fonts you have selected are temporarily installed. Their file locations are not known, so they cannot be used for this kind of operation."
Some programs I have (e.g. Corel Graphics suite) recognise these fonts, but others, like Word, are not aware of them. I don't recall installing any of them and I don't want them, but I can't seem to remove them. I've done a search of the entire hard drive for the font names, but nothing comes up.

The normal Windows Control Panel font manager does not report them as even being installed, so I can't delete them through Windows.

I'm running Xp Pro, fully updated (SP3 etc.) on a Toshiba Tecra A2 laptop.

Can anyone help me find the location of these temporary fonts so that I can uninstall them?

[prosportal]

First off, I'm not a big fan of Toshiba laptops due to the fact that up to 80 processes start the first time you boot it up. As far as the temp fonts. Usually a temporary or soft font is a font that remains in a printers memory until it is reset. Do you have a printer installed on this PC?

Also, you may want to try a wild card and do a search for one of the font names. Now and then, the font file will be the same name as the font.

[smeezekitty]

the fonts may be in memory not on the disk

[patio]

Unfortunately playing in the fonts folder is not an effective method of ttrying to speed up a laptop...
Some are required by Windows whether in use or not and getting rid of the wrong ones can render a machine un-bootable...

[smeezekitty]

i did some googleing and didnt see anything about computer becomming unbootable
from missing fonts
the worst i saw was unreadable

[BC_Programmer]

even so your simply not going to see any perceivable gain by removing fonts of any form.

[smeezekitty]

this is very true