--- a/src/core/pool_type.hpp
+++ b/src/core/pool_type.hpp
@@ -119,20 +119,6 @@
 		}
 
 		/**
-		 * Deletes item with given index.
-		 * @param p Titem memory to release
-		 * @param index index of item
-		 * @note never use this! Only for internal use
-		 *       (called automatically when constructor of Titem uses throw())
-		 */
-		FORCEINLINE void operator delete(void *p, size_t index)
-		{
-			assert(p == Tpool->Get(index));
-			Tpool->FreeItem(index);
-		}
-
-
-		/**
 		 * Allocates space for new Titem at given memory address
 		 * @param size size of Titem
 		 * @param ptr where are we allocating the item?
@@ -154,21 +140,6 @@
 			return ptr;
 		}
 
-		/**
-		 * Deletes item that was allocated by the function above
-		 * @param p Titem memory to release
-		 * @param ptr parameter given to operator new
-		 * @note never use this! Only for internal use
-		 *       (called automatically when constructor of Titem uses throw())
-		 */
-		FORCEINLINE void operator delete(void *p, void *ptr)
-		{
-			assert(p == ptr);
-			for (size_t i = 0; i < Tpool->first_unused; i++) {
-				assert(ptr != Tpool->data[i]);
-			}
-		}
-
 
 		/** Helper functions so we can use PoolItem::Function() instead of _poolitem_pool.Function() */
 

--- a/src/newgrf_text.cpp
+++ b/src/newgrf_text.cpp
@@ -125,24 +125,39 @@
 		return new (strlen(text) + 1) GRFText(langid, text);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Helper allocation function to disallow something.
+	 * Don't allow simple 'news'; they wouldn't have enough memory.
+	 * @param size the amount of space not to allocate
+	 */
+	void *operator new(size_t size)
+	{
+		NOT_REACHED();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Free the memory we allocated
+	 * @param p memory to free
+	 */
+	void operator delete(void *p)
+	{
+		free(p);
+	}
 private:
 	GRFText(byte langid_, const char *text_) : next(NULL), langid(langid_)
 	{
 		strcpy(text, text_);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Allocate memory for this class.
+	 * @param size the size of the instance
+	 * @param extra the extra memory for the text
+	 * @return the requested amount of memory for both the instance and the text
+	 */
 	void *operator new(size_t size, size_t extra)
 	{
-		return ::operator new(size + extra);
-	}
-
-public:
-	/* dummy operator delete to silence VC8:
-	 * 'void *GRFText::operator new(size_t,size_t)' : no matching operator delete found;
-	 *     memory will not be freed if initialization throws an exception */
-	void operator delete(void *p, size_t extra)
-	{
-		return ::operator delete(p);
+		return MallocT<byte>(size + extra);
 	}
 
 public:

--- a/src/stdafx.h
+++ b/src/stdafx.h
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@
 	#if (_MSC_VER < 1400)                   // MSVC 2005 safety checks
 		#error "Only MSVC 2005 or higher are supported. MSVC 2003 and earlier are not! Upgrade your compiler."
 	#endif /* (_MSC_VER < 1400) */
+	#pragma warning(disable: 4291)   // no matching operator delete found; memory will not be freed if initialization throws an exception (reason: our overloaded functions never throw an exception)
 	#pragma warning(disable: 4996)   // 'strdup' was declared deprecated
 	#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE // all deprecated 'unsafe string functions
 	#pragma warning(disable: 6308)   // code analyzer: 'realloc' might return null pointer: assigning null pointer to 't_ptr', which is passed as an argument to 'realloc', will cause the original memory block to be leaked

--- a/src/window_gui.h
+++ b/src/window_gui.h
@@ -345,11 +345,26 @@
 	Window();
 
 	virtual ~Window();
-	/* Don't allow arrays; arrays of Windows are pointless as you need
-	 * to destruct them all at the same time too, which is kinda hard. */
-	FORCEINLINE void *operator new[](size_t size) { NOT_REACHED(); }
-	/* Don't free the window directly; it corrupts the linked list when iterating */
-	FORCEINLINE void operator delete(void *ptr) {}
+
+	/**
+	 * Helper allocation function to disallow something.
+	 * Don't allow arrays; arrays of Windows are pointless as you need
+	 * to destruct them all at the same time too, which is kinda hard.
+	 * @param size the amount of space not to allocate
+	 */
+	FORCEINLINE void *operator new[](size_t size)
+	{
+		NOT_REACHED();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Helper allocation function to disallow something.
+	 * Don't free the window directly; it corrupts the linked list when iterating
+	 * @param ptr the pointer not to free
+	 */
+	FORCEINLINE void operator delete(void *ptr)
+	{
+	}
 
 	uint16 flags4;              ///< Window flags, @see WindowFlags
 	WindowClass window_class;   ///< Window class