Windows 10: Rebuild Font Cache in Windows 10

How to: Rebuild Font Cache in Windows 10

How to Rebuild Font Cache in Windows 10


The font cache is a file or set of files used by Windows to manage and display the fonts that are installed on your PC. Sometimes the font cache may become corrupted and cause fonts to be garbled or not appear properly. To fix the font cache corruption, you will need to delete the old font cache and restart the computer afterwards to rebuild a new font cache.

This tutorial will show you how to rebuild the font cache to repair it in Windows 10.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to rebuild the font cache.



Here's How:

1. Click/tap on the download button below to download the Rebuild_Font_Cache.bat file.
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Note Here is the contents of the .bat file for reference:

Code:

2. Save the .bat file to your desktop.

3. Unblock the .bat file.

4. Right click or press and hold on the .bat file, and click/tap on Run as administrator.

5. An elevated command prompt will now open, run the commands in the .bat file to delete the font cache, and close.

6. When finished, restart the computer to rebuild a new font cache.


That's it,
Shawn


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Try rebuilding the font cache:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/54452-rebui...

 

where can i download the standard microsoft font pack?

1. To restore your fonts in Windows 10

Type Fonts in Windows Start Search box > Click Fonts > Click Font Settings on left side > Click Restore default font settings > Restart your computer

2. If you don't get respite, you will need to build your font cache.

https://winaero.com/blog/rebuild-font-cache-win...

 

Hello @Dimitri, *Smile

I like *FontCache* better than ~FontCache as well. I also added a check in the .bat to verify if the service has stopped before continuing.

 

Hi Shawn,

I tried your script on our windows 10 machine... it deleted the FNTCACHE.DAT file in the windows32 folder but not the other ones in the other location. There was no complaint by the system that I could see.

Ideas?

Jeffrey

 

Hello Jeffrey, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

That's ok. It's normal for it to not be able to delete some of the font caches that are currently in use. Plus, some of them get recreated fresh almost immediately after being deleted.

 

Hi Shawn,

My SSD crashed on me when I started for the first time after my holidays.
Everything else was okay, but my fonts were not working properly. The Windows Fonts folder was showing only a handful on fonts even though many more were installed.
When I used your *.bat (Thanks a lot for creating it, btw!!) & do the restart everything seems back to normal: all the fonts show up in the Fonts folder & are displayed correctly in Indesign/Word.
But when I restart another time, it's back to the old problem: only a handful show up in the folder, and the others are not displyed correctly in Indesign.
Any idea what I could do to stop this behaviour?

thanks a lot from Germany,
Roger

 

Shawn,

Your .bat 'fix' worked wonderfully yesterday - made all my installed fonts accessible in the Word 2007 drop-down list. but this morning after booting up, everything is back to "There is insufficient memory or disk space.Word cannot display the requested font".

What is weird is that Excel 2007 (installed from the same Office 2007 diskette) can access all the fonts and has never given me this error message. I just added to an existing Excel workbook with no problem changing fonts or text size. WHY just Word? This situation started for me two days ago, and never occurred before then. I tried the 'rename the .dotm files to old* and my HP printer is using the same drivers it always has used.

Where do we go from here?

 

Hello J, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Are you low on disk space?

Did you disable the page file, or set the page file too low by chance?

 

1TB hard drive only 1/4 full, and have not made any changes to page file setting. I did find out that Office 365 was installed 7/16/17, and I just removed that - it seems that my challenge started then!! That must have been Microsoft forcing it onto my PC, as I did nothing to install it!! Still working to get my Office 2007 set up again, as it seems to be needing something.......

 

It could be an issue with Office 2007 being installed on Windows 10. Office 2007 has not been tested or officially supported by Windows 10.

Which versions of Office work with Windows 10? - Office Support

 

I have been successfully using Office 2007 on 5 Lenovo laptops running Windows 10, and this one is the only one experiencing this problem - which started 3 days ago.

 

If you like as a test, see if increasing the size of the page file may help. If it got set to a low size somehow, it could cause strange issue like this.

Manage Virtual Memory Pagefile in Windows 10 Windows 10 Virtualization Tutorials

 

I uninstalled Office 365, rebooted, then went to Control Panel-->Programs and Features-->(right clicked on) Microsoft Office Standard 2007-->'Change'-->Repair, let the repair run, then rebooted, and the fonts are now there - again!! This really seems to have been caused by the forced installation of Office 365 on my laptop three days ago (thank you, Microsoft). If anyone else finds this situation to be cropping up, perhaps they will want to look for Office 365 to have been installed....
Thank you for such quick replies and your help.

 

Great news. Thank you for posting back with your findings. *Smile