PoppaGator -

Check to make sure that you are viewing hidden and system files. (Win Explorer - Tools - Folder Options - View tab) The Windows\Fonts folder is the default location for fonts used by Windows and by Windows compatible programs. Your folder may just be hidden. (It may also be tagged as a "System Folder" and will probably have the "Read Only" attribute set.) You install a TrueType font for Windows use by pasting it into C:\Windows\Fonts, and you "remove" it by deleting it there (or cut there and paste somewhere else so you can put it back if you want).

Some individual programs may contain font files in their own folders, and you should probably leave them alone; but the only "approved" way to make a TrueType font available to all Windows programs is to have it in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.

In WinXP, Win Explorer, you should be able to do a search for filenames including *.ttf to find all the TrueType fonts on your C:\ drive (be sure to include hidden/system and subfolders.) You can Ctl-A to select them all in Search Results, Ctl-C to copy, and then go back to folders view and paste all of them into a "Font_Archive" folder if you'd like to have a single place to look when one gets lost. You may have duplicates, and for "collection" purposes keeping the one with the most recent file date usually works okay.

John