add fonts?

[dienkhung]

i added fonts to C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$$\Fonts, will my fonts install automatically if i dont create a answer file(winnt.sif)? if not is there any way around this?

[diesel_98a]

they should but don't forget to register them, otherwise other programs wont recgonize them, i just add it to my tweaks so it registers automatically.

[BAM]

Registering can be done like my sample:

;Register the font used within the Sentinel theme.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"BankGothic Md BT (TrueType)"="BNKGOTHM.TTF"

Good luck if you want to add another 100 or so of those..!!

[diesel_98a]

yeah it me like 40mins just to do like 20 of them & i only added 20.

[BAM]

That's why they invented the "ctrl+c / ctrl+v"

Hahaha, but that's still a fast job you did!

And now your eyeballs go like: ?

Enjoy it.

[diesel_98a]

that i would agree w/, i only started copying & pasting about half threw,

[RyanVM]

I've never understood why not just open the fonts folder after installation to let Windows install them instead. Heck, you could probably even write a little VB Script to open and close the Windows font folder automatically.

[maxXPsoft]

add it to Runonce in cleanup.cmd = works for me

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/root,%systemroot%\Fonts

[scorpy]

I dont see why you dont just copy all your fonts into the fonts folder (to install them), and then go export that registry key.

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

It does all the work for you, and you just edit out the default fonts. Bam, and your done! No typing required.

[RyanVM]

Here's an idea for how to expand on that. Do a fresh install in a VirtualPC environment (or an a computer with no extra fonts installed). Take a registry snapshot with a program like Advanced Registry Tracer. Add the fonts. Take another registry snapshot.

Compare and export the differences and botta-bing!

[mazin]

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/root,%systemroot%\Fonts

This is a simple and handy solution.

Is /e,/root, obligatory?

Still, we need to use taskkill, don't we?

[maxXPsoft]

As RyanVM said

Just open it.

If I change and add or remove some Fonts i have to fix the reg so it's easier for me to just add this to end of my Cleanup.cmd.

REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce /V RegisterFonts /D "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/root,%systemroot%\Fonts"

EDIT: I cleaned it up, don't need to SET KEY=

You see I'm adding to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER Runonce, that work's and all it does is open a window to the Fonts folder in explorer. You simply close it. Not worth trying to kill it cause first you'd need a sleep or wait so the window will open first. Probably take a vbs file to get the process running the Fonts folder to kill it and not explorer.exe that's running desktop.

I'm sure theres a way using a long .vbs but is it worth messing with? Not to me

Edited September 11, 2004 by maxXPsoft

[mazin]

That's good. Thanks.

[anza]

First off, be gentle for me, this is my first post here

I've searched the forums and tried to find the answers by myself, but I haven't had any luck. Perhaps I've not used the correct search terms... Any way, to the point now.

I 7-zipped all the fonts I want to add to my unattended Windows setup. run this in RunOnceEx and it actually works (I have 7z.exe in \system32):

REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Fonts" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "7z.exe e %systemdrive%\Install\Fonts.7z -o%windir%\Fonts" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Install\Fonts.reg" /f

Now I was wondering if it was possible not to have the 7-zip window open up? I tried running a fonts.cmd (with cmdow @ /HID) and when I ran it on my computer to test if it works, it worked, but when I run it in RunOnceEx, it doesn't work. It goes straight over the "Fonts" part. And yes, I had it pointing to the fonts.cmd.

Also, a bit off-topic, I wanted to have Windows restarting automatically after RunOnceEx, so I wouldn't need to manually restart, with

shutdown.exe -r -f -t 30 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 30 seconds..."

in my cleanup.cmd, but it doesn't restart. Any ideas how to do that? Can I even run shutdown.exe in RunOnceEx?

Thanks in advance.

[maxXPsoft]

anza

your command is correct for shutdown

you are calling Cleanup.cmd from runoncEX?

mine at end of RunoncEX is

REG ADD %KEY%\" & iREX & " /V 1 /D ""%systemdrive%\Install\cleanup.cmd"" /f

yours may differ a little cause that's my program add's value's