flowersource
02-23-1999, 08:57 PM
I installed win 98 almost a year ago (has it been out that long?) At that time I did not install any new fonts from 3rd party cd's. You know the ones, 15,682 fonts for $14.99.
I never took the time to research the effect on win 98 of installing 48 budzillion fonts. I didn't want to take the chance of the fonts having the same effect as on previous versions of windows ( I could walk from here to Jeruselem before windows finished loading) like I said, I have never stuck my nose in a win 98 manual or help screen.
During the time that I have been running win 98, several (read: many) applications have installed fonts on the system...Corel, Lotus Smartsuite etc...
I use QuarterDeck Cleansweep Extra Strength and Real Help to 'service' the entire system and clean the registry. My guess is that it should not be a problem installing lots more fonts.
I have to feed this computer a motherboard and a 56k modem about every 5-6 months, but other than that, the speed is fine.
Question: Does the quantity of fonts installed have any negative effect on the operation of windows?
I am running a mmx 233 overclocked to near 300 (that's all the motherboard can handle), 128 meg of ram. I am using FAT32 on 2 partitions set at 2k and 4k cluster size.
Mike
I never took the time to research the effect on win 98 of installing 48 budzillion fonts. I didn't want to take the chance of the fonts having the same effect as on previous versions of windows ( I could walk from here to Jeruselem before windows finished loading) like I said, I have never stuck my nose in a win 98 manual or help screen.
During the time that I have been running win 98, several (read: many) applications have installed fonts on the system...Corel, Lotus Smartsuite etc...
I use QuarterDeck Cleansweep Extra Strength and Real Help to 'service' the entire system and clean the registry. My guess is that it should not be a problem installing lots more fonts.
I have to feed this computer a motherboard and a 56k modem about every 5-6 months, but other than that, the speed is fine.
Question: Does the quantity of fonts installed have any negative effect on the operation of windows?
I am running a mmx 233 overclocked to near 300 (that's all the motherboard can handle), 128 meg of ram. I am using FAT32 on 2 partitions set at 2k and 4k cluster size.
Mike