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<p>You might run into an issue where you&#8217;ll be unable to delete fonts in Windows 8.</p>
<p>I have recently installed additional Helvetica font that was required by some .PSD I needed.</p>
<p>After I while, I have noticed that font has changed on both IE and Chrome browsers on some pages. Because I didn&#8217;t like the change I tried to delete the font from <strong>Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to delete the font and did receive this message:</p>
<p>Delete Font: Helvetica cannot be deleted because it&#8217;s in use.</p>
<p><img class=" size-full wp-image-440" src="http://wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/font_delete.PNG" alt="" width="416" height="150" border="0" /></p>
<p>I have tried by closing all programs but I just couldn&#8217;t delete it.</p>
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<p>So here&#8217;s how to delete it:</p>
<p>Found out the font file name from \\%machinename%\C$\Windows\Fonts</p>
<p>Right click on the Font name, for instance <strong>Helvetica</strong> and click properties.</p>
<p>Font file name for Helvetica is <strong>18836_HELR45W.ttf</strong></p>
<p><strong><img class=" size-full wp-image-441" src="http://wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/font_delete_2.PNG" alt="" width="374" height="309" border="0" /></strong></p>
<p>To delete the file, even though it&#8217;s in use we have to run Command Promt in elevated mode (Run As Administrator)</p>
<p>Type the following command:</p>
<p><strong>del /f /s /q /a &#8220;C:\Windows\fonts\18836_HELR45W.ttf&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong><img class=" size-full wp-image-442" src="http://wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/font_delete_3.PNG" alt="" width="595" height="145" border="0" /></strong></p>
<p>This command will force the deletion of the read only file and delete it from all subdirectories if available.</p>
<p>Now the only thing to do is to restart your machine because the font will still be in use until you restart the computer.</p>