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Font Loader and Register Server Shell Extensions

Ran across this useful utility since I’m loading a ton of fonts on my XP laptop (Windows 7 already has this kind of thing built-in).  It adds a context menu entry to load/unload or install/uninstall fonts when you right-click font filetypes.  Nifty.

Warning, though.  It installs the fonts in-place, rather than moving them to the Windows fonts directory.  This means two things: put them in their own folder, like My Documents\Fonts, and don’t delete them.

I only realized that after I installed them, so I moved the files then edited the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts to repoint the file locations.

It also supports adding a register/unregister dll context menu entry, something I’ve done with manual registry hacks before.  That’s cool.

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