gimp still seeing deleted fonts. tried everything to get rid of them. :(?

ive tried:

control panel -appearance - fonts - but none of them exist there, so i cant delete them.

c: -windows - fonts - basically the same folder, and still the fonts don't exist

deleting every gimp font folder i could find. also the gimp font folders are empty.

i uninstalled gimp so many times, going so far as to hunt any remaining left overs to delete

going into the computer registry with win button + R, they don't exist in that font file either.

using a command prompt to try and delete them, but still the comp says it cant find them.

deleting gimps font config -which deleted any ability to read fonts, and even after fixing it, they were STILL THERE!

deleting all the folders that gimp reads fonts from. but gimp still says it finds the fonts in the c: - windows - font file. yet i cannot see them, even when i press unhide font just to see if i can. and i still cant see anything.

i have like 10 copys of 1 font showing in gimp because i made a little tweak and replaced it and its really pissing me off now.

system restore is out of the question as this has been going on for YEARS now. i think my only salvation is a factory reset, which i absolutely dont want to do just to fix this small annoying font issue.

Have you updated it in the last few years? Actually the truth is that such things are usually kept in a configuration file in - in *nix - your home directory. If you find and delete that your fonts will be gone.