do u need that regestry setting for every font you put in the $OEM$ $$ Fonts folder?

or is that setting specific to the people that want a certain font as their default font?

I hope not a dont really want type 1200ish entry's

i'm sorry to say this then, but yes, u must do this for every font that you add

Or to save yourself the trouble of typing everything yourself, just export the registry settings from a computer that already has all the fonts installed then use that .reg file in your unattended install.

As a new question, related to this one: Is it possible to compress the fonts when they are in $OEM$\$$\Fonts with MakeCab, and will windows automaticly extract them?

Or to save yourself the trouble of typing everything yourself, just export the registry settings from a computer that already has all the fonts installed then use that .reg file in your unattended install.

perfect thanks!

I tried this method

"Or to save yourself the trouble of typing everything yourself, just export the registry settings from a computer that already has all the fonts installed then use that .reg file in your unattended install. "

but didnt work .i exported the followinfg file for my current registry after installing them

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

the file looked like this

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"10.15 Saturday Night -BRK- (TrueType)"="1015sn.ttf"
"10.15 Saturday Night [R] -BRK- (TrueType)"="1015snr.ttf"
"10 Minutes (TrueType)"="10MINUTES.TTF"
"14 minutes sharp (TrueType)"="14minute.ttf"
"1900.80.5 (TrueType)"="1900805.ttf"
"1979 (TrueType)"="1979.ttf"
"1980 Portable (TrueType)"="1980PORT.TTF"
"20.000 dollar bail (TrueType)"="20.000DOLLARBAIL.TTF"
"20th Centenary Faux (TrueType)"="20thfaux.ttf"
"256 Bytes (TrueType)"="256BYTES.TTF"
"2 Prong Tree (TrueType)"="2PROT___.TTF"
"2Tech (TrueType)"="2TECH2.TTF"
etc

Im using a self extracting archioze and they all copy in the windows\font folder fine.bu the fonts are not listed in notepad,wordpad etc i also tried a key like this but neither of them worked

from regshot

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\10.15 Saturday Night -BRK- (TrueType): "1015sn.ttf"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\10.15 Saturday Night [R] -BRK- (TrueType): "1015snr.ttf"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\10 Minutes (TrueType): "10MINUTES.TTF"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\14 minutes sharp (TrueType): "14minute.ttf"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\1900.80.5 (TrueType): "1900805.ttf"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\1979 (TrueType): "1979.ttf"

As a new question, related to this one: Is it possible to compress the fonts when they are in $OEM$\$$\Fonts with MakeCab, and will windows automaticly extract them?

This would be the best solution, if possible.

As a new question, related to this one: Is it possible to compress the fonts when they are in $OEM$\$$\Fonts with MakeCab, and will windows automaticly extract them?

This would be the best solution, if possible.

I just tried it: i packed all the fonts with makecab (All seperate files, also the resulting packed files are all separate), imported the registry keys at first boot, and it works like a charm.

For others to see, i attached my fonts.reg file (36Kb) to this post, so that everone can see how their .reg file for the font's should look like

fonts.reg

thank you! gonna try now

How much space did you save?

i have added about 40 Mb of unpacked fonts, and was able to reduce that to about 19 Mb, so it's about 50 percent space saved

I just tried it: i packed all the fonts with makecab (All seperate files, also the resulting packed files are all separate), imported the registry keys at first boot, and it works like a charm.

I imagine you've done the following steps:

1- Put all font files inside a folder.

2- Create a CMD file and put it inside that folder, too. The CMD contains this line:

for %%i in (*.ttf) do makecab "%%i"
del *.ttf /y

3- After running the CMD, all font files are cabbed (compressed), their extension changes from .ttf to .tt_, and the total size decreases by about 50%.

Right?

Where, in your unattended CD, did you put the cabbed files?

Edited August 26, 200422 yr by mazin

Ive used the compression bin by JCARLE ;i have them in c:\XPCD\$OEM$\$$\Fonts

Installing now ,see how it goes

Ive used the compression bin by JCARLE ;i have them in c:\XPCD\\$OEM$\$$\Fonts

Installing now ,see how it goes

I just wondered how Windows could install them automatically while they were compressed!