Internet Explorer 5.5 Starts Slowly with Many Fonts Installed

After you install or upgrade to Internet Explorer 5.5, you might notice that Internet Explorer is slow to load or start.

This behavior can occur if you have many fonts installed. Internet Explorer 5.5 must initialize each font when it starts.

To work around this issue, remove unnecessary fonts. However, Microsoft recommends that you not remove the Windows default fonts.

NOTE: Keep in mind that some of the fonts may have been installed by other programs. You could experience problems with a program if you remove its fonts. If you are not sure which fonts you can safely remove with causing problems with a program, contact the manufacturer of that program.

For additional information about which fonts are the default Windows fonts, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: To remove fonts from your computer:

1.	Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Fonts.
2.	Click the font that you want to remove, and then click Delete on the File menu. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each of the fonts that you want to delete. After you select all of the fonts that you want to delete, click Delete on the File menu.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.