As a web designer I find that every so often I end up looking at new fonts. Of course what inevitably ends up happening is that I’ll go through lists and lists of free (as in beer and freedom) fonts installing them all before testing them out. Of course, I rarely go back and uninstall the ones I don’t want. After all, you’ll never know when that font of people in random poses might come in handy.
But recently I hit on a weird issue. I installed about 100 fonts not really paying attention (it was late 
) and I ended up overwriting something. No idea what, but it was important. Everything was messed up nad italicized and bolded in what had to be one of the most illegible fonts I have ever seen. I went through with word and photoshop looking at various fonts that I thought could have been over-written and no dice. I couldn’t figure it out. I even complained on twitter about it, but no luck.
In the end I ended up finding an application called FontFrenzy. What FontFrenzy really is, is a font management tool. It lets you install fonts, preview them and uninstall them. I guess that’s all a font manager really needs to do, I don’t know I’ve never used one. Why I DID end up installing Font Frenzy was because of a feature called Defrenzy. It uninstalls every single font except for the default font set included with your version of windows. It even creates a snapshot before it does, incase you want to revert.
I would post a screenshot or something, but it’s not necessary. There’s a button that says Defrenzy. And you just need to click it.
Voila, you have now restored the default font-set included with any version of windows from XP to 7.
