Installing Fonts With Windows 7

mommy23monkeys | 28 February 2010 | Misc. Nonsense | , , , | 4 Comments

My DH (“darling husband”…at least for today *wink*) bought all the parts needed to build me a new computer system as a Birthday/Valentine’s day present.  I’ll write more on the specifics of it all later.  Along with this new system, he splurged and got me Microsoft Windows 7 Professional . I had been using Vista on my laptop and while it was okay for me, the tech in him hated it.

Today is really the first day I’ve gotten to get in and play around with my new computer, and I had to reinstall Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. Along with this reinstall though, I realized that I had to go through and find all my favorite fonts again.

I’ve probably never mentioned that I’m a font whore, have I?

I had a ton that I’ve collected and was not looking forward to reinstalling them all.

Begrudgingly,  I went to my favorite font site and started downloading.  It was then that I discovered just how freaking EASY it is to install fonts with Windows 7!  I got all giddy like a little girl on Christmas.  I decided that I would share my new found knowledge with all of you.

1st step:

Same as always, download and extract your font files.  Unless you have your settings weirded out, the extracted files should end up in your documents file.

2nd step:

Step 3:


Pretty awesome, huh?

All done.  Open Photoshop and your font’s will magically appear.

You’re welcome.

Isn’t this enough reason to get Windows 7?

I thought so.

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4 Comments

  1. Kimberly says
    28 February 10 at 4:05pm

    Hey, I just got Windows 7 this weekend too! SO glad to be done with Vista!
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    • mommy23monkeys says
      28 February 10 at 4:24pm

      I never really had an opinion on Vista, but like I said, DH hated it. But now that I’ve had W7 for about 8 hours, I already love it bunches more!

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  2. Stefani says
    01 March 10 at 9:22am

    I am probably going to be buying me a new laptop soon and want Windows 7 on it. My laptop I have now is a good one but I want to have two just in case this one goes out.
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  3. renee says
    01 March 10 at 11:54am

    Easy=good!
    This is sad but I have no idea what my laptop is running…my husband is the professional computer nerd, not me so I just use whatever he installs and he fixes whatever doesn’t work! Okay you made me curious enough to look and it’s Windows XP Professional…whatever that means :)

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