Font can't be deleted because it's in use

Cliff S said:

Go to C:\ and in the upper left search give BebasNeue as a search and let windows search find the file, and see if you can delete it there.

Deleted all of the files searcher same message:

Cliff S said:

Ok I went to the same place as you(C:\Users\cliff\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts) and tried one I installed the other day and get the same message, and it was not used yet.
I'll look into this.

Thank you so much! This has been bothering me for 2 weeks.

Cliff S said:

Ok I got rid of that one. IRON MAN OF WAR 002 NCV


Only the other three I left are there:

Bold is so you can see the steps clearer between my bla-bla-bla

What I did was go into safe mode without networking, went to the file, at the start I changed the name to "XXX" just so it would be at the bottom of any lists and easy to find.

I then cut and pasted it to my downloads folder(I use downloads as my scratchpad/working folder others prefer desktop) ignored and warning and just left the warning window open.
I then deleted it(the warning window stay open).
Then rebooted into windows, thinking if any system file is using it, maybe I'll get lucky and it will stay in recycle bin during the reboot, and then when windows is off, whatever has it's "grip" on it will lose it when Windows restarts.
And that's what happened, I then just emptied the recycle bin and now it's gone.

I booted into safe mode, but before I did what you said I just tried deleting the font from the Fonts folder in the Windows folder, somehow that worked. Must have been something I did above, not sure what it was though. Thank you anyways for all the help.

I know it's an old post, but here's how I managed to get it finally removed
Open windows Run and type "REDGEDIT"
or Just search menu for "Registry Editor"
click Ctrl and F buttons to start searching
Search for the font name you are trying to delete, and then delete the entry with that font name only
It should be under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
But I did a search in case it's used somewhere else.

eliasbenb said:

I am trying to delete a non system font (Bebas Neue), but when I try to delete it it gives me the message: "Bebas Neue cannot be deleted because it's in use". I tried booting into safe mode to delete it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.