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Add Fonts
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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Discussion (10 comments)
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! :-)
This annoys me a LOT, trying to install a font pack is HELL.
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 !
Changed solution description.
Try choose Yes or No with shift.
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.
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!
Press and hold Enter.
Fixed in Windows 7.
Changed status from [Not fixed] to [Fixed]
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"