Removing foreign language fonts

Well, here we are over a year down the road with Windows 7and with the latest SP1 installed, we find that nothing has changed as far as the ability to delete fonts in a simple manner. I have tried every suggestion in this thread only to find that it has caused more problems. Fortunately, the System Restore has helped get me back to a normal condition.  It is more than obvious that Microsoft's dream team feels that the customer is an idiot who should not question the infinite wisdom of it's choices. However, I have found a solution to this problem which, while costly in the short term has been found, at least for me, to more than pay off. I am now using an Apple iMac. I still use the PC and Windows 7 for tasks that do are simple. When I consider all of the infinite stupid and useless changes that have been made by MS in Windows 7, the Mac is a dream to use. It is hard to imagine a group of Microsoft engineers sitting around a table and choosing to substitute a simple operation developed in Windows XP in favor of a complex operation for Windows 7. I have spent literally months trying to solve many Windows 7 problems in all areas from the Mail, Video, Audio, Fonts, etc. To add to the misery, trying to talk with someone from India or other foreign country to solve the problem simply compounded the issue. I have done a clean and install no less than 7 times to correct problems they have caused after they "took control" of my computer and "fixed" the problem. For me, this time, frustration, dollars, and energy lost is not worth it. The cost of the Mac more than made up for this. It is no wonder that Apple is making such inroads, and doing it for the masses in a simple manner. It is a no-brainer. I am sure that those at Microsoft are scratching their heads trying to figure out what went wrong. They might try reading these forums and doing something about it in a timely manner. I will never consider another PC purchase or recommendation.

For me what is really frustrating about this is not so much that there are scores of fonts I will never ever use, but the fact that the guaranteed list I will NEVER use always appears at the top! If there is going to be an @ symbol, why not put it before Arial and Times New Roman--or better yet, let me pick my 5-10 favorites? Why force Batang and GungSu and DontCare and ThisStinks (my translation of the Asian fonts) to the top? Who made that decision?

I am painstakingly following the instructions above, but since I may have dozens of fonts that I want to delete, it is frustrating also to have to go into each one individually and jump through all the hoops of reassigning the permissions. Microsoft does not pay me for this, yet I have to take a significant amount of work time to do this.

I am no expert. I right click on font icon,  if the icon is not showing , I click show and try to delete. if this fails, I right click on font icon and select  open. In the new window i right click, go to properties and proceed to change trustedinstaller to administrator. Return to font page and delete icon. I am over half way through the fonts, only Malgun Gothic has resisted deletion

Hi again,

it took some time until I got the first feedback from a user testing my batch file. He confirmed what I had noticed when testing the first version of my batch file with an English version of Windows 7 in a virtual machine:

About half of the font files can be moved without any problems, but the other half of the font files is protected by Windows and you have to take ownership first and change the permissions for the administrator group to full rights before you can move them. Fortunately this can be done without clicking through dozens of properties dialog boxes, it can be done by the batch file, too.

I added the necessary commands to the batch file, you can now download the new version as a zipped file only, called _2mf-1.0.zip . I updated the download location and instructions below:

• First, create a new folder " 2manyfonts " on the same drive/partition where your Windows folder is located. In my case, I have C:\Windows, the fonts are in C:\Windows\Fonts, and I created C:\2manyfonts
• Download the zipped batch file(named _2mf-1.0.zip) and unzip the contained batch file (named _2mf.bat) into your 2manyfonts folder (you created that folder, right?)
• Click the Start Orb (aka Start button ;-) ) and type cmd in the search box
• In the list above right-click on cmd.exe and choose Run as administrator
• In the command window, type " cd \2manyfonts " without the quotes
• Type " _2mf.bat X " and replace the X by the letter of your Windows partition, in my case C, so I would type "_2mf.bat C". Type a space before the drive letter!
• Press Return/Enter
• When the batch is finished, which should just take a second, you should have 149 *.ttf files in your 2manyfiles folder.