How do I uninstall a font that was installed incorrectly? Is there a way to change the name of an already installed font?
The name of the file was labelled incorrectly and now I have a installed font with an incorrect name.
Thanks, Brian

Clic on the fonte file in the Windows/Font directory and delete it.


no

Don't ever try to change the name of an installed font by renaming it in the installed directory. You will permanently damage the font. For one thing, the panagram sentence at different point sizes will no longer be displayed, if you open the font in preview. I don't know what other damage would be done, but that's reason enough to not do it.

There is a way to do it, with Windows XP, but I don't know if this procedure would work with other operating systems.

For example, in my installed Windows fonts, the font named Bodoni MT Condensed Bold Italic has file name BOD_CBI.TTF, and I want the font name and the file name to be the same.

This is what I would do:

1) Open Windows Search, browse for the directory C:\WINDOWS\Fonts, and click the Search button. I want the search results to show the contents of the installed fonts folder in the operating system.

2) Select and copy any fonts which I want to rename, and paste them into a new folder, created somewhere other than the Operating System, or Program Files.

3) In the new folder, right-click and rename the font file name(s).

4) Delete the installed font.

5)Select/ copy the renamed font)s), and paste it/them into C:\WINDOWS\Fonts.

When I did this on a previous computer, I could not chance the file names of Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, or the font currently selected for Notepad.exe. TheTahomafile name can't be changed, even from all caps to regular spelling, because Tahoma is the font used for Windows XP file names and default display. You would potentially do major damage to your computer, if [b]Tahoma is uninstalled, even briefly. This would likely apply to a different font, instead of, or in addition to Tahoma, if later operating systems have a different text display font.

I was able to change the names of every other font, except the three noted above. I have no idea whether or how this can be done with Windows Operating Systems after XP. Pwerhaps someone else could enlighten us on that.

Maybe I can reinstall it, using a different e-mail address?
Do you have any contact information, someone on Dafont that I can actually talk to about my situation?
It seems this website is run by no one.
Brian at pipemunk@gmail.com

Brian, what makes you say that it's run by no one ?!
did you try to contact the person who runs it ? i don't think so...



btw, by putting your email address on a pblic website, you'll get a lot of spam

I have already answered in an other topic, but just to be sure that you see it, here it is again:

Brian, it seems like you wanted to have your font renamed. But you just renamed the font file, and didn't change the font name inside the font. which is why it can't be updated like this. And it also has a major ascender/descender problem. If you can fix these two issues, we'd be more than happy to update your font.