"Installed" fonts not showing up in Windows Fonts folder

It's really kind of sickening that so many of us have had this problem, and yet MS support doesn't seem to care.

I've tried every suggestion in this thread, and still cannot install a font, even though windows always thinks it has installed the font. It shows up in the fonts folder, it shows registered as a font, but none of them ever show up in any programs.

EDIT: I FOUND A WAY THAT WORKS FOR ME!!!!

Short Answer: You need to copy your font file to c:\windows\fonts while using admin privledges. I did this while using an elevated command prompt, and a "Copy fontfile.ttf c:\windows\font"

Long Answer: Okay, this is annoying, but I think I figured it out. This is a little advanced but works 100% of the time

1. Open your c:\ in windows explorer, make a new folder on the root called fonts. Copy your fonts in there.
2. Open an elevated command prompt. Open the start menu, type CMD but DON'T CLICK ENTER.  Move your mouse up to where it says Command Prompt and right click. Run as administrator. Accept the popups, eventually you get a black text window.

IF YOU DO NOT OPEN THE COMMAND PROMPT WITH ADMIN ACCESS, THIS MOST LIKELY WILL NOT WORK, BUT WILL SAY IT DID.

3. Type the following commands. You can copy/paste them but you need to use CTRL-V in the text window to paste each line SEPARATELY.

cd\fonts  (Then Press Enter)

copy *.* c:\windows\fonts  (Then Press Enter)

(Advanced note: If you know how to navigate DOS, you can do this a number of different ways, just make sure you have an elevated prompt, and use a copy command to get the font files into c:\windows\fonts directly )

That's it. You're done. Open word, or illustrator, or something, and see if the font file showed up.

Thanks Janey for your trying. 

Of course, I know how to install a font :)

But my problem is this as follows:

Before:

Then I select a font and copy try to copy it in this folder. This happens:

As you can see above, this font was not there. Anyway, I click yes, but it's still not there as you can see:

Hi Yasir,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I have seen this article but is that for Windows 10? My setup is different:

I can go to two different font settings:

1. Control Panel - Appearance and Pers. - Fonts:
2. Windows Settings - Personalization - Fonts

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1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click Fonts.
3. On the File menu, click Fonts to place a check mark.
4. On the File menu, click Install New Font.
5. To verify that fonts are being displayed, look in a folder that contains font files (such as the Windows\Fonts folder).

What File menu? Which check mark?

Thank you

Not sure if this was solved yet... but just had same problem. I managed to fix it by installing a file search tool (Everything by Void Tools) and searching for "FontName .ttf". There's a space between the name and the extension (it pattern matches).

There was an additional ttf installed that had the typeface name followed by a "_0" (or was it an _1 ?). It's as if windows had installed two copies of the font. It was in C:/Users/Username/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts".

It gave me the 'in use by system' warning, but a reboot allowed me to delete it. For good measure I also searched the registry for the font file name and removed any entries. After this the font was removed properly and when I reinstalled the font again it showed up properly.

I have the same problem. The only solución i found is to copy the Fonts folder from C to say the desktop. On the desktop you can see all fonts. In my case after moving the folder I could see all the files from C:\windows\fonts and also the files from the Fonts folder on the desktop.