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Add Fonts

Submitted by brian.shapiro on June 3, 2008 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Installing 100’s of fonts which each happen to have duplicate versions of Windows fonts - forces you to hit “Yes” over and over again.

Add “Yes to all” and “No to all” buttons; better yet, follow the conventions of the file copy dialog.

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Fixed

Discussion (10 comments)

alewifebp wrote on June 4, 2008, 12:51am

Agree that this is a problem, but they should not add Yes to all/No to all, but rather follow the conventions of the file copy dialog, being able to click off "do this for the next # of fonts"

schumatt wrote on June 4, 2008, 2:42am

Agree that it should follow the new conventions of the file copy conflict dialog.

This has been so annoying for me that I wrote a script in AutoIt some time ago to watch for "Windows Font" in the title bar and automatically press ENTER for me! :-)

mupet0000 wrote on June 6, 2008, 1:21pm

This annoys me a LOT, trying to install a font pack is HELL.

cosmin2007 wrote on June 7, 2008, 3:00pm

The UI design guide states clear instructions in designing this kind of choice dialogs, but Microsoft Developers never mind about them !

I N C O N S I S T E N T W O R K , M I C R O S O F T !

brian.shapiro wrote on June 8, 2008, 4:05pm

Changed solution description.

hACK wrote on June 8, 2008, 8:34pm

Try choose Yes or No with shift.

faxedhead wrote on June 13, 2008, 12:04pm

afaik you can hold down 'shift' to make 'yes' or 'no' turn into 'yes to all' or 'no to all'. it would be nice if when you hold down shift, that the OS renames these buttons to make it clear what's going on.

ruffrichard wrote on June 13, 2008, 6:51pm

Yes! Another one that has annoyed me, recently I installed about 100 odd fonts across about 8 different machines... and each time I had to put up with clicking yes or no 50 billion times (a little exaggeration I know, but it felt like that) come on Microsoft. Step up, stop worring about the fancy stuff and graphical stuff for a little while, and just concentrate on the things that annoy you, fix them and make it a more pleasureable environment to work in!

hydrogen wrote on January 24, 2009, 10:02am

Press and hold Enter.

nyp wrote on June 21, 2009, 4:43am

Fixed in Windows 7.

nyp wrote on February 13, 2010, 6:58am

Changed status from [Not fixed] to [Fixed]

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