Font Frenzy -- Safely Clean Up Unused Fonts
Posted on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 9:46 PM by Randall
Programs love to install new fonts to your system. Unfortunately, each font adds a tiny bit to your system footprint making your system slightly more of a memory hog and take slightly longer to boot. Each font only adds a tiny amount to "Windows Bloat," but given how many programs love to install a pack of fonts -- many that you will never use -- one can have a lot of fonts on one's system without even realizing it.
Font Frenzy can help you resolve this situation. It is a font viewer on steriods. It will view and print fonts like every other font viewer available. It will allow you to easily add and remove fonts. What sets it apart from other freeware font viewer is that it can create a snapshot of all the fonts currently installed on your system and quickly restore your system to that point. This means you can take a snapshot of your current (overloaded) font folder, remove all the fonts you don't think you need to reduce "Windows Bloat," but if you discover you were wrong and removed the wrong fonts, you can quickly restore to your snapshot.
Here is the freatures list from the Font Frenzy web site:
* Save a snapshot of your fonts folder that you can use as a restore point.
* Re-install fonts quickly and easily from a previous snapshot.
* View your font list at any point-size using a customizable test phrase.
* Easily print your font list for reference.
* View a sample of each font in a pop-up window including every upper- and lower-case character and numbers.
* User-friendly font manager allows you to add new fonts, delete, or unload and store selected fonts.
* View all fonts from a specified folder
While Font Frenzy is freeware, registration is required to use the program beyond a trial period of 40 days. Registration is free, but it is a slight hassle.
Rating: 4.0
Operating System: Windows
License:
Freeware
Price: Free
Version: 1.1
Web Site:
http://www.fontfrenzy.org/