I have a new desktop that has Windows 8 installed. While I was installing everything from my backups, I installed backed up fonts of my old Windows 7. How can I remove these custom fonts and restore the default ones back?
Photoshop is crashing because of these fonts.
I tried to go to fonts->font settings->restore font settings, but after clicking restore font settings, it grays out and the OK box grays box, and nothing changes.
Best Answer
You can actually find the fonts in a Windows 8 install cd under the /Windows/Fonts folder. Just copy those over to the Fonts folder on your computer.
More instructions (with other options) can be found at the following online article: http://www.askvg.com/fix-unknown-characters-or-vertical-rectangles-are-showing-in-place-of-metro-icons-in-windows-8-start-screen-and-login-screen/
If you know which fonts you want to delete, the solution that worked for me was to forcefully delete the files from the command prompt in Windows advanced settings. To do so, do the following:
Individually:
Type del "c:\Windows\Fonts\[font name here]", replacing "[font name here]" with the font filename (note: you can auto-complete the name with the tab button).
Batch File:
This needs to be done before going into the command prompt. Open up a text editor like notepad or notepad++, and enter the following (replacing [font name] with the font that you want to delete). Save the file as "c:\delete_fonts.bat"
Enter that line for as many fonts as you need to delete. Save the file again, and then start from step 1 again. Once you get to step 7, simply enter the following command at the command prompt to execute the batch script that you created to delete the fonts: "c:\delete_fonts.bat".