How to pick favorite fonts in Windows and not see all the others?

You seem to be looking for someone to argue with. I'm not interested (saving all my energy for scrolling through fonts ;)

If anyone else actually has helpful suggestions, I'd be grateful to hear them.

I don't know why you ask - I'm looking for a solution, not looking to explain myself. But since you did, all the junk fonts Microsoft for some reason feels compelled to dump on our computers, as well as other bloat wear, always slows computers. It's one reason why memory and CPU requirements keep increasing.

But that's not my reason for asking. I did because having so many fonts slow ME as I have to scroll through all of them to get to the few I actually use. Getting to Times Roman is a long trip.

I tried hiding the unwanted fonts as you suggested, but that does not seem not available on my computer which is running the Home edition of Win 10 - what version of Windows are you using? On mine, I can buy even more fonts (from the Microsoft store of course), delete fonts (which I've tried before then had to reinstall when programs started acting odd), but no option to just hide fonts (sadly, not even Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or Wingdings 5, all the nonEnglish fonts, etc.), or to be able to pick "Favorite" fonts that would appear at the top of the looooong list of fonts.

(Id love if someone did a study to find out how often each font Windows is stuffed full of is used.)

Windows 10 has always had the ability to hide fonts. Here's how:

Control Panel > Fonts > Select your font > Hide

I would be interested to learn how extra unneeded fonts affect your computer. Do they, for example, slow your computer's performance or cause it to crash?

My computer has hundreds of fonts, of which I typically use just a handful. But the unneeded fonts don't seem to have any bad effect on my 10-year old computer, which runs very well. All those fonts take up 353 MB of disk space, which is hardly anything at all.

Hi!

I'll try to help you!

I know this is frustrating, but unfortunately it's not possible to select favorite fonts.

You can send a suggestion to Microsoft through Office (I'm not a Microsoft employee and most people here aren't either). You can see how to submit a feedback at this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-...

All best!

You asked about fonts in your original post; you didn't ask about "other bloatware" which is a subjective term that means different things to different people.

If you can show me a before-and-after measurement of your computer's performance with the fonts you have now and the fonts you really want to have, I'll be interested to see it.

My version of Windows:

In addition to Windows fonts, my computer also gets fonts from Office and other applications I installed.

Microsoft Word, for example, gives me a little help in choosing fonts:

I'm sorry it's such a struggle for you to scroll all the way down to Times New Roman. One of the ways I save myself time - in Word - is by creating Quick Styles Sets, which allow me to choose fonts and styles from the Office ribbon.