# Installing fonts in @!#$%^!! Windows Me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 21, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-fonts-in-windows-me/69651 "2001-06-21T16:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-fonts-in-windows-me/69651/1 "2001-06-21T16:51:25Z")
I just got a new laptop. Much to my chagrin, it’s running Windows Me. I toyed with it, managed to change the settings, so that it looks like a proper operating system rather than some communist pseudo webpage, etc. Now I’m trying to install the 30 MB of fonts that I’ve collected on my desktop. I burned the fonts from my desktop onto a CD, which I then inserted into the DVD-ROM drive of my notebook. After dragging and dropping the new font into the “fonts” folder in the control panel, I fired up Wordpad to see if they showed up. They didn’t. I’ve tried every program I can think of so far, and the recently installed fonts aren’t showing up in anything. I can open the ttf files in explorer, but they’re not showing up in any programs at all. Am I missing something here? ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-fonts-in-windows-me/69651/2 "2001-06-21T17:17:24Z")
Apparently, I’m not as dumb as I look. If anybody else is having similar problems, here’s what you do: Select “Run” from the Start menu. In the dialog box, type the following: Attrib +S C:\Windows\Fonts Click OK. That should do it. I can now install font files like normal.