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Ah ok I suggested the customer try out three different font management programs including suitcase fusion but for some reason they still weren't happy so I suggested the only thing to do was to move them back to Vista. I didn't actually sit down myself with suitcase fusion so I don't know what it's like or what happened when they tried it. I did make a Macrium reflect image of the Windows 7 install first so if they are having problems with Vista I can investigate suitcase fusion more move them back to Windows 7. From memory I think their objection was "they had to many fonts to go in and disable the ones they were not using" but I told them to try it out and if they weren't happy I would move them to Vista and said there was no hurry and they had plenty of time. The whole point of supplying this machine was so they could use more than 4gb of RAM I didn't want to get embroiled in something that it outside of my support boundaries. When I put Vista on I installed the free AMP font manager and told them they would have to use but but also told them I had never used it myself so couldn't teach them how to. This is one of the e-mails that I sent them: date Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:51 AM subject Another font management program Paul, Many font management programs let you disable fonts for example: http://www.extensis.com/en/products/suitcasefusion2/free-trial.jsp best regards, Chris But maybe I should have tried it out myself and maybe I was being lazy by not doing so but I may be forced to eat my lazyness yet. Or maybe the business owner would rather me spill more of my precious hours than they would like to spend some of their precious money on more software I may never know. My next step is to e-mail them and tell them that suitcase fusion is probably the go. I bet I will have to go back and move them to Windows 7 at some point because Vista it quite a dog. Very slow to shutdown and had a BSOD when trying to install incredimail for them. I'll send them a link to this thread as well.

I couldn't see anything about fixes to the font management system in the beta for Windows 7 Sp1. Ahh perhaps keep Windows for games and for any real work use Linux or Mac.

I have been suggesting such font management programs to them such as the one you suggested to me and another called font expert and another free one called AMP font viewer. Here a link to a discussion of people having a similar problem: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/9482eee4-0a62-439a-9671-6603ed934faa In particular one guy says "Low and behold, I can smoke 2 cigarettes before my computer will even make the "startup sound". Illustrator cs3, word, acrobat, and pretty much every darned program that uses fonts for creative work will freeze almost indefinitely on startup." The customer was having huge issues with thing like their Mimaki Rasterlink program stopping working and only showing the Java logo when trying to start after installing all their fonts as well as other problems of really slow performance in their adobe illustrator (I think) application and the computer badly crashing that I thought I had traced the problem down to a loose motherboard heatsink and gave them a new motherboard and reinstalled W7 only to have the problem come back again once they reinstalled all their fonts. I did A LOT of testing on their RAM and HD, graphics card e.g. memtest86, samsung futil or hdutil, furmark, prime95 changed their optical drive and SATA cables you name it so I am very certain now the issue is with Windows 7 font management and is not a hardware issue. If they can make those font programs work for them than that would be excellent but at the moment on Saturday I'm going to make a backup image of the machine in Macrium Reflect and I'm going to install Vista Business 64-bit to see if there fonts work much better than they do in Windows 7. All their other machines are running XP 32-bit and don't have any problems with all their fonts.

Hello, I have a customer that is having huge problems with Windows 7 slowing to a crawl after they install all their fonts and I suspect the Windows 7 font manager is likely behind these issues. They are using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit with 8gb RAM. Is it possible to remove the Windows 7 font manager using vLite? best regards, Chris