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Replace default Windows 7 "Thin Character" Fonts
I hope I can make this sound sensible. Ever since I obtained a PC with Windows 7 Pro, I have had a very serious problem seeing details in the display window, even though I have turned off all the special effects, switched to a customized Aero display scheme, and so on. The biggest problem is the extremely high level of brightness on all Windows screens, both native Win and non-MS apps, along with a very extensive use of "ultra-thin" characters in fonts and faded, dimmed, or extremely low contrast on the screen text. Sometimes, it gets to a point where my (admittedly aged) eyes just cannot read what is on the screen, especially with the almost pathological fixation Windows has with using very light blue or other similar colors everywhere.
I have been able to compensate by reducing the brightness on my monitor to about 20% of the optimum default setting, using a custom CSS with IE, and by extensively modifying the display characteristics using the Advanced Window Color and Appearance settings, and by totally shutting off all the Win 7 "effects". Although that worked fairly well for the native Windows software and MS apps, and for some other non-MS apps, it still does not totally fill the bill for me. I still have to mostly use the high-contrast theme to comfortably do things like read my email etc.
If I could just completely rid my system of the ultra-thin fonts, I think I could get by good enough. (I should mention that I never had any problems with WinXP Pro on my old PC). So here is my question: Is there any way to either modify the font files that Windows and other oftware use to display their screens to make all fonts visible and legible again by fonts using "normal" old-style characters, or to obtain a replacement system font set that would work with all apps?
I realize that some applications use embedded fonts, in which case what I get is what I get. But if the "ultra-thin" fonts used everywhere were replaced with "normal" old-style fonts when they call on system fonts, at least I would be better off than now. The ultra-thin fonts must be, I presume, a separate font file and style. What I want to do is just replace that whole style with a more conventional font style.
Thanks for any help. (BTW, I do not want to use a custom theme, since I have never found one that does not have other problems in my case. I even bought the entire Stardock suite, but it is beyond my skillset or patience to devise something like this as a custom theme. I did use it to rerplace the Win 7 Logon and shutdown screens, which were actually useless for me because I could not see the text or controls at all on the native Win 7 screens.)
Pete B