If you're not happy with your current font selection, you can buy or download new ones and install them on your computer. Most fonts sold at stores come with installation programs that spare you the messy details in Windows Vista's font installer. But if your new font didn't come with an installation package, here's how to install it:
Place your new font in your Documents folder. Many downloaded fonts arrive inside a compressed folder, also called a zipped folder. If your font arrived this way, right-click its icon, choose Extract All, and let the wizard extract its contents to a folder inside your Documents folder.
Right-click the downloaded font and choose Install. The downloaded font's icon looks like one of the two shown in the margin. When you choose Install, Vista adds the font to your Control Panel's Fonts area, where it's available to all your programs.
To delete any unwanted fonts, right-click their names in the Control Panel's Fonts area and choose Delete. Don't delete any fonts that came with Windows Vista. Just delete fonts you've installed. Deleting some of Windows Vista's built-in fonts will remove letters from your menus, making Windows Vista even more difficult to use.
If you can't resist downloading free fonts from the Internet, remember that Windows Vista can handle TrueType fonts, OpenType fonts, and PostScript fonts. And if you really get into fonts, you'll want to buy a font management program sold at most office supply stores. Finally, always scan downloaded fonts with your virus checker.
Be aware that installing lots of fonts can slow your PC down to a crawl. I'm not sure if that's true of WinVista, but Win98 and WinXP suffer from this problem...
By lots of fonts, I mean anything from 100 fonts upwards.
I installed 101 fonts before... didn't see any performance difference using WinXP
Perhaps it was just my machine, then. I think I was using Photoshop, which loads the fonts up to be able to display them in the Font list, so maybe that was chowing memory...
I have seen several instances of 'performance tips' sites and books that mention not installing too many fonts.