Problems When Too Many Fonts Are Installed
Article ID: 158592
Article Last Modified on 9/3/2002
APPLIES TO
This article was previously published under Q158592
SYMPTOMS
When you have numerous fonts installed, you may experience any of the
following symptoms:
- The installed fonts are not available in the font list in Microsoft
Pocket Word.
- Icons disappear from the desktop and from My Handheld PC.
- The command bars in your programs are distorted.
- The Handheld PC (H/PC) may stop responding.
CAUSE
These problems can occur if you have too many fonts installed for the
amount of available program memory.
Each TrueType font has several sizes, and the number of fonts installed
may consume 1 MB of global windows environment (GWE) memory. Once the GWE
heap reaches 1 MB, Windows CE may fail to properly allocate GWE memory.
RESOLUTION
To resolve these problems, reduce the number of fonts you have installed
by deleting fonts from the Windows\Fonts folder.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: hand heldtrue type ttf
Keywords: kbprint KB158592