Installing tamil fonts

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You can also try this step:

Note: Before you download a font, make sure you trust the source.

1.      Open Fonts by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Fonts.

2.      Click File, and then click Install New Font.

If you don’t see the File menu, press ALT.

3.      In the Add Fonts dialog box, under Drives, click the drive where the font that you want to install is located.

4.      Under Folders, double-click the folder containing the fonts that you want to add.

5.      Under List of fonts, click the font that you want to add, and then click Install.

Also refer to this link for more information:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Install-or-uninstall-fonts

You can also try this step:

To install Tamil Font, we can use the following steps:

1. Copy the Font file. The font file is the file with the extension ".TTF".
2. Open the folder under system root. The path should be "C:\windows\Font".
3. Paste it.

We can check if the font works fine in Word or others text editors. 

Hope this information was helpful.

Let me know if this worked.

All the best!

Thanks and Regards,

Uma R   

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