Consolas font missing in VS2017 Win 7

Question

I am working with Win 10 and Win 7. On both I use the newest version of MSVC 2017. While working on the Win 10 machine, everything works fine and I can use/select the Consolas font. When working on the Win 7 machine, everything also works fine, but I can't select Consolas font, because there is no entry for it.

Please tell me how to restore the Consolas font. I used the "Repair" command on MSVC 2017 Installer, but the font hasn't been installed. Deleting and reinstalling MSVC 2017 hasn't helped either.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Just open C:\Windows\Fonts, search for Consolas, press Ctrl-C, and then copy to a Windows 7 computer.

Since Windows 11 22H2 you can no longer open that folder. There is still a way if you type in the explorer: \\localhost\c$\Windows\Fonts