Control Panel:

As you see more and more computers, you will notice that no 2 of them look and act exactly the same. Some have different colors around the borders, in the menu boxes that drop down or even different fonts in the titles that are displayed. Some windows may have very wide borders around the window, and some have different "Screen Savers" displayed when you walk by. All of these things are capable of being customized - (And you don’t have to go into any ini file and edit them to do it !)

The program that handles the majority of the options in Windows is called "Control Pannel". This handy little program is normally in your Program Group called "Main".

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What is inside the Control Panel will vary from computer to computer depending upon the types of things it has added to it. Some software will add a little applet, and sometimes adding particular hardware will give you some options to customize. We will stick with the basic options - and here are a few shown below.
 
 

We’ll start with a few basic components:

The Colors:
 
 

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Once you get a color selection you like you may want to save that scheme so at a couple clicks you can get right back to the color setup you like. Click on the "Save Scheme" button and then give it a name.
 
 

Note: If you click on the Define Custom Colors button you will get a color pallet to work on where you can set your own colors by adjusting how much red, green, and blue are in the color, how light or dark it should be - (The way your color is displayed depends a great deal on how your screen resolution is set up - 16 colors, 256 colors, 16 Million colors etc, more on these options later)

The Fonts:

Notice that there is a sample of the font you select in the Installed Fonts: list displayed box below it. This is helpful in selecting which fonts to keep and which fonts to delete.
 
 

It is best to NEVER delete any of the fonts that are not listed as (True Type) next to them. They may be a font your monitor is using to display text. Also always KEEP the following fonts installed (because so many programs use them by default)
 
 

1. Arial, 2. Times New Roman, 3. Courier, 4. Serif, 5. Sans Serif, 6. Symbol, and 7. Wingdings

windows 3.1 Remove font dialog box:

If you choose to remove some fonts (by holding the Ctrl button down you can choose more than one at a time) you will see an option box like the one below. If you check the "Delete Font File From Disk" you will not be able to re-Install the font again later without coping the *.ttf file to your hard disk.
 
 

If you chose remove more than one font then clicking on the Yes button will remove them one at a time, where the Yes to All button will remove all the fonts you selected without prompting you at each file.

Technical Note: Windows 95 and Windows 3.x handle fonts entirely differently. This text covers the 3.x style. When you install a True Type font, Windows actually installs 3 files. First is the font.ttf file that contains the information for what each key represents, Second is the font.fon file which is the file Windows looks for to display that font on your screen, and Third is the font.fot file that is used when you print something from Windows.

How many fonts you have installed can be limited by not only your hard disk space but also your memory. Fonts can take up a lot of room both in memory resources and hard disk space. If you find that you almost never use a True Type font, copy the font.ttf file to a disk for storage, and delete the files from your hard drive. Note: Make sure you delete them through your font manager, and NOT simply delete them from file manager or DOS because this can cause errors when Windows is looking for a font it thinks is still there.