Even if they're physically in the folder, they're invisible until they're installed, but you can't access them to install them.
I don't know Windows 7 but can you still set your folder settings to show hidden files?
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Kristen - Jun 08, 2010 9:30:16 am PDT #14086 of 25501
DCJensen - Jun 08, 2010 9:47:58 am PDT #14087 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2010 9:50:02 am PDT #14088 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, DCJ. I had thought it was Oracle-proprietary and totally tied to databases, but I guess not.
Ginger - Jun 08, 2010 12:16:07 pm PDT #14089 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
XP did automagically install, but the magic is gone from Windows 7. You can set your folder settings to show hidden files, but not in the Fonts folder.
I need to pare down the fonts list, heaven knows. It has just growed, like Topsy.
Kristen - Jun 08, 2010 12:18:03 pm PDT #14090 of 25501
You can set your folder settings to show hidden files, but not in the Fonts folder.
That's just bizarre.
Gudanov - Jun 08, 2010 12:22:35 pm PDT #14091 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
XP did automagically install, but the magic is gone from Windows 7.
Definitely a step back, and a weird one as that can't be hard to implement.
Deena - Jun 08, 2010 3:17:54 pm PDT #14092 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I was able to automagically install fonts on Windows 7. I can't check how I did it, though, because my computer's in the shop.
dcp - Jun 08, 2010 3:38:42 pm PDT #14093 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Windows 7 Help says:
To install a font: Right-click the font you want to install and click Install.
Tip: You can also install a font by dragging it into Fonts in Control Panel.
Ginger - Jun 08, 2010 5:43:28 pm PDT #14094 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Windows 7 Help says:
That's what it *says*.
I'm mainly just channeling Mal: "This is exactly what I didn't want. I wanted simple, I wanted in-and-out, I wanted easy money. ... Once, just once, I want things to go according to the gorram plan!"
meara - Jun 09, 2010 9:52:18 am PDT #14095 of 25501
Grr. My internet connection has been driving me crazy. It keeps dropping out and I keep resetting my wireless. Which is annoying anyway, but especially when I live in a many-story townhouse, and my office is on the top floor (but if I put the wireless in my office, then I probably couldn't get it in the basement, and also then in the evenings when I'm surfing on the couch, I'd have to run upstairs to do it).
And so after the third time today, I decided I'd reset the cable modem while I was at it...and it went CRAZY, and my whole internet went down. Kept re-resetting itself, or something.
I decided after half an hour of this, it was time to go ahead and order my own on Amazon. I balked at the cost of overnight delivery, but paid for two day delivery. Because two days with only work computer (I have a cell-internet dongle) and my iPhone, internet?? Is two days too many.
...so of course, at that point, after I've ordered, is suddenly when the internet seems to be working again. Sort of.