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Well, lets see if I can sort your question out! LOL I'm a fontaholilc, I have THOUSANDS of fonts!
1) NEVER have more than 1000 fonts installed in Windows (it slows your computer down, try to keep it under 750 if you can.)
2) The fonts that aren't installed can be stored anywhere you like. You can put them on any drive or even a CD. When you want to use them you can use The Font Thing to open them or you can right click on the font and select Open with Windows Font Viewer (part of windows). It won't matter when you run your graphics program where you have the fonts stored.
3) If you download new fonts, you have to tell it where to put the new font, you can install it in Windows or you can store it with the rest of your fonts. They will not automatically go to any particular location, you have to tell them where.
4) Remove the extra fonts from Windows manually and store them with the rest of your fonts. Be careful not to uninstall any font that is needed for the computer to run. If you use The Font Thing to uninstall, you have to retreive them from the Recycled folder! Don't empty your Recycled folder until you can move them to your new storage location! The Font Thing automatically puts them in the Recycled folder.
5) The Windows web site has the list of fonts that should not be uninstalled, it depends slightly upon what version you are running.
I hope this helped!
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