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Windows has two sorts of fonts. user-local fonts and system-wide fonts. Dunno how long it has been that way but it at least stretches back to winNT, so it's not a win10 oddity. I don't know how the underlying libraries work, either for windows itself or for fontspec. BUT... the solution to my ...

I've been thinking about it and I can 'install' the BKANT.TTF font file from its weird/strange place. BUT: how do font-families work in LaTeX? the BKANT.TTF is just the 'regular' boot antiqua font.but the I/b/ib font files are ANTIQU{i|b|ib].ttf in that same, remote directory. How would LaTeX find ...

I have located the problem, and it may be a bug in fontspec. The missing .ttf files are all in

C:\Users\win10\AppData\Local\Packages\DB6EA5DB.PowerMediaPlayerforDell_mcezb6ze687jp\LocalCache\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts

I have no idea why the hell they're there and not in c:\windows\fonts, but ...

I'm trying to learn to use fontspec on win10 with XeLaTeX. I've got a little test file:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{BKANT.ttf}
% also tried \setmainfont{BKANT}
% and \setmainfont{Book Antiqua}

\begin{document}
hello world
\end{document}

And the font exists ...

Wow. That's real easy! Thanks!!

I've loaded Tex Live and it all works!! Thanks for the help and advice. Now to see if I can figure out how to get it to use my Windows fonts.

I'll try that but there are clearly some registry things, since it is listed in the 'installed apps' list and that won't go away just by deleting the folder. There's all a bunch of stuff in /user/appdata/local/Mik/tex. Win10 is rock solid so I doubt that that's the problem. I think that my inability ...

This is bizarre. I can't uninstall ProTex. I went to Settings>Apps. I was a bit surprised that the installed program is "MikTex 2.9" but that's ok. I clicked uninstall and it tells me we will now finish the setup by populating the link directory with symbolic links to the MIkTex executables. And it ...

Makes sense -- I'll uninstall ProTeX and try Tex Live. Thanks!!

I installed ProTeX, what's the difference between that and TexLive? The cpp files must be a temporary generated file, because it's not there now. What I'm really interested in is a version of LaTeX that'll make it [relatively? :D ] easy to use the normal Windows fonts.

I have to admit that the ...