"Installed" fonts not showing up in Windows Fonts folder

Anonymous
2018-07-23T12:31:42+00:00

Hi guys,

Unfortunately, none of the previous answers solves my problem.

I try to install fonts. According to Windows that also works but I cannot see the installed fonts in the Windows Fonts folder and neither do they show up in Illustrator. 

When I copy a font file into the Windows Fonts folder it says "The "xxxxxx" font is already installed. Do you want to replace it?" - I click yes, but still - the font does not show.

It's not a problem of the font file as it was working previously. Same happens to hundreds of other fonts. Says they are installed but they don't show and they are not selectable in other applications.

Thanks for your help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-01-18T08:29:15+00:00

    Any solution yet? I tried to copy the Fonts folder inside the Windows folder to a new folder using the CMD commands and all my old fonts (back when I was using Win7) showed up, there are around 350 of which Windows 10 only displays 80 in all my programs. Then I tried to copy the 350 fonts of this new folder to the Fonts folder inside Windows folder and this did nothing, everything seems to be the same. I had noticed that this only happens with fonts I had installed before upgrading to Windows 10 since the new fonts I download installs without any problem. Do you think if it's a good idea to delete Fonts folder inside Windows folder and then copy the folder with all the fonts I made before in Windows folder? Or it will crash my PC? 

    PS. Strangely enough, Settings app does show all the fonts... and I managed to reinstall some fonts by uninstalling them as you said before, but some fonts I had before came atomatically within Office and Adobe installations... Maybe it's time to go back to Win7...

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-17T15:43:48+00:00

    I am surprised that no one mentioned this yet but the issue on my Windows 7 PC English language pack, seems to be related to the fact that all of the non-functioning fonts are for languages other than English, Latin or "not specified" Hopefully MS support will pick up on this and fix the bug.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-01-14T19:41:46+00:00

    FWIW I did confirm on a second Win 10 machine that was having the same issue (not being able to delete fonts properly because they are 'in use') that uninstalling Skype worked for me (even if you don't use Skype). In my case I didn't even need to reboot.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-01-12T20:18:54+00:00

    The problem is the fonts are there, but not visible. Updating does not good. The fonts remain not visible.  This is absurd. And I must say, classic Windows, circa 1989.

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