When you have just a few fonts active on your computer, you don’t notice the drag, but when it’s several hundred fonts - or a thousand or more - they add up to a sizable chunk of power that should be going to your software applications rather than to fonts you don’t use. including 2 versions of Hobo, one from Microsoft, and the other from Adobe!Įach font that’s loaded on your computer eats up a small portion of RAM.
The total: 110 basic Windows and ClearType fonts, 139 non-Latin language fonts, 187 Office fonts, and 200+ from Adobe's CS, depending on which suite you installed. Here's Adobe's list of fonts installed with CS5.5. See Microsoft's list of fonts installed with Windows 7 and with Office 2010. Bleah! My students know how “fond” I am of the typeface Hobo that is installed on Windows computers by Microsoft’s products.)
Windows and MS Office install more than 400 fonts on your computer system, and if you install an Adobe CS product, you’ll have an additional 200+ fonts. Here’s my review of FEX and why it should be on your computer. Linotype-Monotype just released Font Explorer X Pro for Windows (FEX), the sibling of the Macintosh version that helps designers manage their font libraries and perform other tasks.ĭownload a free 30-day trial of FEX and take it for a test drive: I’ve been holding my breath and waiting to tell my clients and subscribers about it for quite some time - and now I can spill the beans. Starting today, Windows users now have the best font manager available to turn off, turn on, and install fonts on their systems.
Oh, happy day! I now can turn off “ Hobo,” my favorite font to hate in Windows.
Reboot your computer and you should no longer have the drop shadow under icon text on Windows 10 desktop.Windows users can now have the same thing Mac users have: the best font manager on the market, Linotype's FontExplorer X Pro, was released today for Windows.īy Bevi Chagnon, PubCom Here's a short review of why you should use a font manager on your computer and what features make Linotype's FontExplorer X Pro your best choice. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advancedĭouble-click the ListViewShadow entry in the right pane, change its value from 1 to 0. If you’re a fan of hacking the Windows registry, you can simply remove drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop using Registry Editor.
If you can’t see the change, restart your PC.
How to Remove Shadow Under Icon Text on Windows 10 Desktop? Here’s how to remove shadow under icon text on Windows 10 desktop.ĭisabling shadow will make your desktop icons’ text labels easier to read against your background: Is there any way to turn off or hide the shadows for desktop icon labels? On Windows 10 desktop, the text under icon text has a drop shadows effect by default, which can make the text illegible.