When you have an account on a shared school or work PC and wanted to install and use your own fonts but couldn’t as you don’t have the admin privileges which are required to install fonts. After getting the feedback, Microsoft has made some changes to this.
Earlier Windows Fonts were to be installed for all users. It being system-wide change, it always required admin privilege.In the file explorer, when you right click the folder containing Font file to bring up the context menu, then the “Install” option would appear with the security badge meaning it requires an admin to do it.
Earlier Microsoft introduced fonts in the Microsoft Store in the Windows 10 1803 feature update. So it needed deep changes in Windows to allow a font to be installed by a specific user rather than system-wide. So no admin action is needed when fonts acquired in the Store are installed.
Microsoft has extended this further to include font files obtained by a user from other sources and want to install. Now when you right-click on a font file in File Explorer, you’ll see two options. “Install for all users” provides the past, system-wide install capability and requires an admin. But now there is another option: “Install” allows any user, including non-admin users, to install a font for their own use.
Normally, font files come within a compressed folder. The “install” context-menu option isn’t available in File Explorer when you view the contents of a compressed folder, but you can double-click the font file within the compressed folder to open it in the font previewer, and that provides an “Install” button. In the past, the button in the font previewer had the security badge, and it would do a system-wide install, requiring an admin. Now the security badge is gone, and the “Install” button in the font previewer performs a single-user font install, which can be done by non-admins.
This is a welcome change for all those users on a shared school or work PC.
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