My Toshiba laptop seems to be taking longer to boot these days so I decided to do some disk cleaning and removing unwanted programs.
One thing I was aware that slowed the boot process was having LOTS of fonts installed.
I have a font manager PROGRAM called "Font Explorer", and this reports I have a large number of "temporary" Windows fonts installed.
If I try to delete these fonts using Font Explorer, I get the message:
"The fonts you have selected are temporarily installed. Their file locations are not known, so they cannot be used for this kind of operation."
Some programs I have (e.g. Corel Graphics suite) recognise these fonts, but others, like Word, are not aware of them. I don't RECALL installing any of them and I don't want them, but I can't seem to remove them. I've done a search of the entire hard drive for the font names, but nothing comes up.

The normal Windows Control Panel font manager does not report them as even being installed, so I can't delete them through Windows.

I'm running Xp Pro, fully updated (SP3 etc.) on a Toshiba Tecra A2 laptop.

Can anyone help me find the location of these temporary fonts so that I can uninstall them?First off, I'm not a big fan of Toshiba laptops due to the fact that up to 80 processes start the first time you boot it up. As far as the temp fonts. Usually a temporary or soft font is a font that remains in a printers memory until it is reset. Do you have a PRINTER installed on this PC?

Also, you may want to try a wild card and do a search for one of the font names. Now and then, the font file will be the same name as the font.the fonts may be in memory not on the diskUnfortunately playing in the fonts folder is not an effective method of ttrying to speed up a laptop...
Some are required by Windows whether in use or not and getting rid of the wrong ones can render a machine un-bootable...i did some googleing and didnt see anything about computer becomming unbootable
from missing fonts
the worst i saw was unreadableeven so your simply not going to see any perceivable gain by removing fonts of any form.this is very true