My Fonts are killing me
 

Help!!!

My laptop is very limited 266 with win98-2. Having partitioned it some time ago, I felt that 1 gig ish for C and the operating system would be adequate. It isn't. So, I started to move some of the odds into D:. All ok until I moved some fonts, now all seems to have become chaotic. Minute letters on the desktop, and menus, while the applications are ok. Any attempt to restore the fonts from the D drive are met with "delete existing ones first". They will not delete despite changing their attributes. I have renamed the Fonts folder and created another one. This didn't fool it either. It's fighting back at me.

When i tried to move the fonts to the bogus folder, some of them ended up in the recycle bin !!!??? They sort of restore, but don't get recognised.

Is there a simple control that determines the global change of windows fonts?

Now for instance, the Start button is ioOpo while the top menus are ok but bold. LR

Just a guess here ... try using the Fonts applet in control panel to import the fonts from the D drive.

AA

It was about the time that I was thinking along those lines, that I gave up and formatted the drive... I'll never know. A soon as I build my megga machine, I will repartition the drive on this one to give more room for C:
The idea was that Apps would live in D: Docs in E: --- but installations seem to still put so much into the operating system that I occasionally run out of disc space. This surprised me ‘cos I let the virtual mem play in D: and not C: and the raw installation leaves 770 ish before progs are loaded into D: . Just what reduces the disc to circa 200 mb before any temp files etc. are written I just can not understand. The sector size is large, but presumably not as large as it would be if i put everything in one unpartitioned drive.

Whats the situation with the more modern OS's? Is there a better FAT system? Does it still need de-fragging? And is there a case for changing to FAT 32 on an old steam driven 266

Cheers LR