How do I remove dozens of "protected system" fonts from my computer?

There are dozens of foreign language fonts installed on my system, (how they got there, I don't know, but I suspect the Cloud programs installed them at some time or another) and all they do is clutter up the selection list when I try to select a font to use. (No, the "hide foreign language" tool in Windows doesn't fix the problem.) I went to my Windows 7 control panel Fonts page and selected all the fonts I wanted to remove and hit Delete. Fine for some, but I kept getting a warning that the font I was trying to remove was a "protected system" font and could not be removed. Horse manure! I don't need them, I don't want them, and I want them removed from my system. So, how do I get these fonts "un-protected" so I can delete them forever from my computer??

Thanks for the link. It appears that the problem is with Windows, and not something the Cloud did to my computer after all. From what I can tell, people have been upset about this since sometime in 2009, and the only way to remedy it is to edit the registry and/or change the ownership of the files and grant administrator permissions to myself (somehow even more than I already have). It WOULD be nice if Adobe at least found a way to comply with MS's file hiding scheme so Photoshop and Dreamweaver and InDesign would not show all of the unneeded, unwanted, and unnecessary foreign language fonts that MS won't let us mere users delete. Thanks for the help, anyway.

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