# Cant download font!?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-download-font/196087>\
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**Created:** [August 5, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-download-font/196087 "2006-08-05T05:58:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![waseem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@waseem](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waseem)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-download-font/196087/1 "2006-08-05T05:58:16Z")

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can someone help me out i need to download a few fonts for a project im working on, anyways when i place them in the font folder, it says “the font is bieng used and cannot be replaced. wait until windows stops using it.”. does anyone know what to do and whats using the font file. i am using windows xp pro but i dont know what that has to do with anything?