Need Alternative to Windows Font Folder

No, it is not freeware, but it is free to try. Download it here.
In my opinion, it is by far the best font managing program out there.

In January of 2006 I wrote this introduction to the product, and it has gotten better almost every month since then!

I have my (over 100,000) fonts in many folders on a separate hard drive, 1-Fonts (with sub-foldeers Panose 2, 3, 4, 5, AncientLanguages, DanXSolo, Seasonal, etc) for the fonts I REALLY like.

Another folder named 1CollectedFonts with sub-folders AA-AB, AC-AD, etc. to ZA-ZZ. When I find a collected font I really like, I move it into folder 1-Fonts.

Still another folder contains the fonts I have personally created.

Maintype helps me quickly find the font I need to temporarily LOAD for a project that is automatically unloaded when I turn my computer off. It also helped me set up a 1-Groups Folder with sub-folders containing shortcuts to fonts to load fonts as a group for special projects that I use over and over without having to keep multiple copies of each font.