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I seem to have acquired a couple of dozen fonts that I can’t get rid of. They have names such as @BatangChi, @MS PMincho both with and without the leading @ and those without the @ show in e.g. Word’s font list. X-fonter lists them as Truetype but will not let me delete or uninstall them. They appear in the Windows/Fonts folder as.ttc files but show as having modification dates back in 2004.

Has anyone come across these before and suggest how I can clean them off my system.

I run XP Pro

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Check out http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson…/LngCol_EA.aspx%5B/url%5D as this may help in how you got them.
And if you have any of “System Languages” installed may be why they (the fonts) can not be removed.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
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I just stumbled on Font Frenzy. Haven’t tried it, but it might be of some help. It claims to have some “unique” features for uninstalling fonts.

Alan

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Thanks guys. No font tool has managed to remove these although, Alan, your suggested tool is an interesting one for the pen drive. I see that these are MS fonts and suspect that they’ve been ‘activated’ in some way that has left them uninstallable.

I finally eradicated them by getting rid of the .ttc files and then going through the registry removing all references (usual backups etc taken). That seems to have done the trick.

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I don’t have any .TTC files in my Fonts directory, but here is a little information about them.

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