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Changing WIN 7 FONTS folder location

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Hi, Aura and all of You wonderful experts who provide this help for us all.

First I have to apologize for not reacting your earlier help for me since I seemed to crash into new problems all the time and I just couldn't bare with it anymore so I reinstalled my whole OS. Now it's working fine, but I merely now have a question for advise rather than a problem.

Namely, how can I configurate and move my FONTS folder location from the current default location to my D-drive? Namely "D:/FONTS".

I tried googling around but couldn't find anything 100% solid info on that. I remember having playing around with the Registry many years ago and after that simple having moved all the fonts to the D:/FONTS in Win Explorer. But what I also remember vaguely is that this default fonts location is present in many locations in the registry and I never really have been sure that do I need to change every single entry on the registry or just some of them - and what they might be.

And is there even a 100% valid way for moving fonts? Does Window 7 need this default font location anyway and if so then what fonts should exist there? All the default ones?

My D-drive is way faster than my Windows drive (I do have all SW, files and my User Profile etc. configured and installed on drive D so that's the reason why 'only' Windows is on the smaller C-drive) so I'd like to have all my fonts located there since caching the fonts data seems to slow down my PC at some operations, like SW launch etc. I have over 8000 fonts and I really want them all. Never know what I'll need :)

Sorry for the chunk of extra text but anyway::: HOW DO I CHANGE THE FONTS FOLDER LOCATION IN WINDOWS 7?

Thanks for the help in advance!

-Tommi the "rainbow writer"
 
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Why do you want to move the FONTS folder? The total size of it is only about 500 MB.
 
Hello.

Thanks for your answer even if that's not what I wanted to read, since it's far to common to reply to the questions with questions. Let me explain:

- Question: How do You know how many fonts I have installed and how big my complete font files' size is?

- Answer: I have over 10000 fonts installed and their complete size on my HD are somewhat 7GB.


- You might be now wondering and asking me next: "What do you need this many fonts for?"

- My answer: I'm a multi-media professional and I often need different fonts for different situations. I need to have a good collection/range/repertory of fonts even if I of course never will be using all of the fonts installed. This is common in this business since you never know what font would suite in the project.


- You might be wondering: "Why do you want to move your fonts to your drive D?".

- Answer: I have WINDOWS OS installed on a single 120GB SSD on the drive C. Then I have a 450GB RAID-0 configurated 3 SSD set as a drive D and I have configurated my User Profile, TEMP dirs, default software installation paths, page file etc. etc. to use the drive D since it's much faster (R/W ~700MB/s) than the C-drive and I don't want the OS R/W activity to interfere with the heavy IO because of my large Cubase projects (with audio files of course on drive D), large Adobe Premiere projects + all the rest which heavily rely on high IO of the hard drive in addition of the 16GB 2133MHz DRAM on my PC.


- Question: What difference does it make to have 10000+ fonts in comparison to the default 300+ fonts?

- Answer: When those fonts are on my OS drive (drive C) they slow down my PC quite a lot probably due to the 'paging' ie. Windows seems to load the fonts in the RAM to the some degree at least, even if I'm not 'using' the fonts at the time. My PC boot-up time is much slower, then Photoshop start-up time gets really slow etc. Also when opening fonts selection for viewing in different apps, they seem to be loaded into RAM first which heavily slows down the operations in Photoshop for example. Also I get more app crashes than 'normally' since I'm not sure when OS is reading fonts into memory and I tend to try to do editing etc. even if the 'paging' is not yet ready and I don't know every time that how long I should wait. So the faster the HD that the font collection exists in should make the 'paging' operations faster - and in my case pretty much faster (about 5x).


Thanks for your help in advance. I hope I explained my situation well. :)

-Tommi
 

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