Windows 8 Fonts not showing up

[Juc1]

Hi all,

I have pasted some English alphabet OpenType font files into control panel / appearance and personalisation / fonts but they do not show up in the fonts folder. If I try to paste the files again it tells me "the gotham light file font is already installed - do you want to replace it?"

So if the font files are installed why can't I see them in the fonts folder?

I have tried unchecking "hide fonts based on language settings" but that does not seem to help. The fonts do not show up in Microsoft Word or Adobe CS6 and I get the same problem on my Windows 7 machine.


Any ideas please?


Thanks...

 

[Matthew Lala]

jp, to use unlocker, rather than just try to delete the file normally, you have to do this.

Right click the problem file and choose "Unlocker", and then it should ask what you want to do with the file, you'll get a box like this:

Choose delete from the dropdown and click OK, and it should delete.

Worst case scenario, it might say it cannot delete the file until the next reboot, and so you just need to go through this process with all the files you need to remove, then reboot once to finally get rid of them.

Remember that it's not enough to just delete them from the windows font folder, you also need to make sure the list of fonts in the registry is up to date - meaning if a font is removed from the windows folder, it also must be removed from that list. Otherwise you'll get problems and errors later.

Check back to post #7 for instructions on how to see this list and remove fonts from it: https://windowsforum.com/threads/fonts-not-showing-up.192244/#post-694640