Well … it happen to me to have installed on my computer a lot of additional new fonts. Around 2000. Some of them ware installed manually but most of them was found on a collection on the internet. After I installed all this fonts I start to experience a lot of problems with the way some websites and applications were showing information (strange scripts or ugly fonts). The problem was that I replaced some of the default fonts and the only solution was to restore my windows font folder to its default form. For that I followed this steps:
1. I went to C:\Windows\Fonts (C:\ is my Windows drive) and I deleted as much fonts as i could. (ctrl+a to select all and delete key to delete … skipped where the system couldn’t remove the files)
2. Download the default Font folder :
Dropbox mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj3afhieosualan/Windows7DefaultFonts.zip
3. Extract the content of that folder.
4. Select all the files in the extracted folder (ctrl+a)
5. Right click and select Install
And that’s it. Hope you’ll enjoy. The post picture can be found here.
bogdan,
Thank you for upload the default Font folder.
Regards from Spain.
Thanks for the default fonts, I couldn’t find them anywhere else!
Dude, thanks for this so much! You are awesome!
Thank you so much… saved me a lot of time!!! I accidently overwrote one of my fonts with a bad copy that had missing letters and was able to find the font I needed here and fix my problem.
This saved me hours of frustration. Thank you so much.
THANK YOU! MANY MANY THANKS!
You’re the only one who helped me while I was trying to get rid of a bold text/font all over my windows 7…
Brian
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Thank You So MUCH.. U are super awesome.. Wishing u all the best.
Thx man, i’m creating a website and didn’t know which fonts are for commercial use because i installed many fonts now i know which fonts i can use
Thank you sooooooooo much! it’s really helpful!
WOW. I had installed a bunch of fonts for a program that I use. Then few days later noticed a few fonts different. Then installed iTunes and most of the words/info was plain blank. I was thinking of a virus. Checked everything and was clean. So I just installed all of these and overwrite what was on there…. BAM!!! Everything back to normal. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the fonts, it help me fixing wingding.
THANKFUL!!!
Why Microshit does not have that simple solution?
Thanks for posting!
Awesome, thank you so much!
This is really great. Thanks for sharing.
thanks you soo much :*
THANK YOU! it work! :)
Thanks, you saved me. One whole day I was searching internet, trying every advice to fix my fonts, but only this one helped, cheers!
Thanks
Thanks you are great
you are the boss! my browsers went nuts for some strange reason and it was because some missing font (i don’t know which one). i reinstall all the fonts from your zip file and problem solved. thanks.
thanks of all your information:) it really helps me! thanx..
Thank you!
salamat…youre the best man ever….keep doing that….
Thanks! Atlast.. I hate M$ they can’t even provide a support from this small problem.
Thanks a lot for the default fonts.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
VERY MUCH!!!
Can’t seem to find a link anywhere to the ‘default Font folder’.
If anyone can provide me with, or help me get this link, it’d be immensely appreciated.
Huge thanks in advance.
Alex
I hate to be a nuisance, but it seems like the download link to the fonts folder is up, but the link is not active. Unfortunately, I get a big, fat, ugly ’404 Error’ page.
Just trying to get this issue resolved as it seems that this is the only thing that has seemed to work for all these people.
Any assistance is once again, hugely appreciated. Thanks!
Alex
Thank you Alex for your notice … yes, We had a problem with the download system of the website. Now it should work good…. apologize for the inconvenience.
Well Bogdan, I cannot thank you enough for adhering to my small inconvenience. I followed the steps, installed all the fonts in the file, and voilà! Everything is running perfectly.
My webpages no longer have italic text all over them, and everything is back to the way it should be.
Thank you so, so much, once again! You’re the man, Bogdan!
Very Thanks …. restore police Privacy …. good Job men
Big thanx ! :) L4D game rewrite my default fonts
thanks man .
thats realy true .
hey, really a great help… thanks a lot!
Thanks
Very good
Another one: thank you so much. I do not know why, but my Firefox fonts became bold. I tried everything, even change the register. Your tutotrial just worked.
hello man thank you so mush :) you realy helpfull
Thank a lot… Much needed!
Thanks. About time someone’s done this.
Thank you very very much!!!
Thanks so much!
Man You are a life Saver
Thanks! 4 share!
Thanks for this post.
Thank you very very much!!! :) :) :) :) :)
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Thank you so much! I overwritten the original fonts (i currently have 23000 fonts) at it looks terrible. I will just use this to overwrite the overwritten default fonts :D
THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKS!
Thanks a lot…
Thank You!!!
Thank you very much for Windows 7 default fonts.
Great, much appreciated.
From Switzerland
You are the font God,
Thanks loads and loads :)
I have tried download the zip file, but there is unfortunately an error almost on the end of the download.
Or I can not explaine that. I have been used more browsers to download it, but still with the same “effect”.
Checked .. it should work (187,673.43 KB)
Hello…can you mirror it somewhere else?
I’ve tried downloading for like three times using different programs and it always failed.
Your effort will be much appreciated…thanks
I have updated the download plugin. Please check now if you are able to download the files…
I also have received “invalid file” error at 185,907KB. Tried a second time. Same result. Thanks anyway
Eyvallah.
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
@John … Try without any download accelerator. It should work (I’ve tested the link on 3 different computers/internet connections and worked). If you still encounter problems let me know and I can help you with a direct link (like dropbox or something).
How big is the file size & do it have ALL the window 7 default fonts?. Please answer me and thank you in advance.
187,673.43 KB (aprox. 183.5 MB) in size and includes the default Windows 7 “Fonts” folder.
Hi, I tried to download the file, but it stops at 174 MB so the archive is corrupted! I need these fonts a lot. Please, help me
Now it should work fine… please try again. Sorry for the trouble …
thank you man, you saved my day :)
I tried downloading it twice but I can only get up to 112MB of data then it stops downloading. I tried to unzip it to extract but it can’t open. I badly need help.
Please try without using any download accelerator. You have to download the entire file (183.5 MiB) otherwise you will not be able to extract the .zip archive.
thank you
Tried downloading 3 times. It always stops at 168MB :( i really need these fonts and it seems that only you have them. Maybe you can upload it somewhere else? Please help. Thanks in advance. </3
Hi there, my download won’t complete either, please could you send to me via dropbox. Also pretty desperate to get hold of these fonts. Thanks so much in advance!!!!!!
Ok ,,,, I put this folder on Dropbox … you can find it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj3afhieosualan/Windows7DefaultFonts.zip
Thank-u! Is the download supposed to take 20min from dropbox, not sure if my internet connection is too slow? Would it be at all possible to share the folder directly to my dropbox? Or is that not okay from your side???? Thanks so much for your response!
Ok now, I’m feeling pretty thick. The fonts are all in my dropbox folder, and when I looked before I didn’t see them. But before I delete all my existing fonts, I wanted to check I understood everything you said. So within my drop box folder I clicked on all the fonts in the font folder and right clicked to install. BUT it doesn’t give me an install option only: open,cut,copy,delete and properties. What am I doing wrong please? (as I said haven’t actually deleted the other fonts through fear of doing something wrong, or getting halfway and getting confused) So appreciate all this help. Thank-u so much!!!!!! Clearly no computer wizz-kid me!!!!!
shelley, that sounds as if you first have to get them out of the zip archive. Click “copy” and insert the files into another folder. There, you select them all, right click and then you should be able to hit “install”.
Bogdan, I also encountered problems with the original download link. The download stopped at a file size of 166.768.640 bytes. You may want to put the mirror link into the article, because this download worked absolutely fine.
I like your website.
Thank you so very much for the upload and the support you provide. <3
I just want to say thank you soooooo much i was so tired of trying to find a solution but you just saved my laptop thaaaank you … Wish you all the best in life ^_^ ^_^ :D
Well I am downloading the default folder now. Trusting your content!!. if any problems I will post back.
But to be honest after all 3 hours trying to sort this problem looking at many technical / professional / support websites websites it is clear this is the simplest solution. I spent the time trying to avoid doing this, but ….
To help others find this i will if OK with the website now post several search terms i used to get hear to helpfully save others the time and b…….t !!
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!! you save me! love you man!!
I can only echo what others have said here….this has saved me many hours of work!!
Thank you so much!…. you save me! m(___)m
Thanks man , this helped me a lot
I’m running a Linux distro with LXDE and I was looking for a couple of MS fonts like arial, tahoma, verdana, times new roman, calibri and segoe ui, and I found them in your pack. Thank you very much.
Although I’m grateful, this is not the reason of my comment. I wanted to let you know that your fonts are not visible on systems that don’t have your fonts used by the CSS theme file. You should add to your font-family of the options: sans or sans-serif, at the end. Just in case the visitors don’t have the fonts you are targeting.
Thanks! Is peferct for me.
Thanks alot for the fomnt folder!
I know everyone says thanks but I wanted to stand out so FUCK YOU!, but seriously I love you for uploading these, I was so dreading having to copy these from another computer, you saved my day, quite literally.
Thank you so much dear..;i hope these fonts bring my Chrome in decency again…
I never leave reply no matter what, but this font problem went on for days and I tried a million solutions and none of them worked till yours. Thanks