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How to Change the Default Fonts in Windows 7
Published by Brink
12-29-2008
| Fonts - Change How to Change the Default Fonts in Windows 7 Information | | This will show you how to change most of the default fonts in Windows 7 for Active Title Bar, Icon, Inactive Title Bar, Menu, Message Box, Palette Title, Selected Items, ToolTip, and various Dialog Box text and buttons. |  | WARNING | | Changing a Windows 7 font doesn't change your program fonts. |  | RELATED LINKS: | OPTION ONE: |
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| Advanced Appearance Settings |
NOTE | | This will let you change the default font, font size, and font color for the Active Title Bar, Icon, Inactive Title Bar, Menu, Message Box, Palette Title, Selected Items, and ToolTip text. |  | 1. Right click on a empty space on the desktop and click on Personalize. (See screenshot below) 2. Click on the Window Color link at the bottom of the window. (See screenshot below) 3. Click on the Advanced appearance settings link. (See screenshot above) WARNING | | - If you have selected a Basic and High Contrast Themes, then you will not see the screenshot. Instead, you will see the screenshot below step 4.
- If you have selected a Aero Themes, then you will see the screenshot. Continue to step 4.
|  |  4. Select a Item that you want to change the font for. (See screenshots below) NOTE: Not all of these items will have a font for them.  5. To Change the Item Font - A) Click on the Font drop down menu and select a font. (See screenshot below) 
6. To Change the Item Font Size - A) Click on the Size drop down menu and select a number for the size. The higher the number, the larger the size. (See screenshot above) 7. To Change the Item Font Color - A) Click on the Color drop down menu and select a color. (See screenshot below step 5) 8. To Have the Item Font in Bold - A) Click the B button to highlight it. If it is not highlighted, then the font will not be in bold. (See screenshot below step 5) 9. To Have the Item Font in Italic - A) Click on the I button to highlight it. If it is not highlighted, then the font will not be in italic. (See screenshot below step 5) 10. Repeat steps 4 to 9 until you have changed all of the fonts for the select items that you wanted. 11. When done, click on OK. (See screenshots below step 4) 12. Close the Window Color and Appearance window. (See screenshot below step 3) NOTE: You will not have this to do if you have a Basic and High Contrast Themes selected. | OPTION TWO: |
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| Dialog Box Text and Buttons |
NOTE | | This will let you change the default fonts for most of the Windows 7 dialog box text and button text through the registry. |  | 1. Open the Start Menu. 2. In the Start Menu Search box type regedit and press Enter. (See screenshot below) 3. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes. 4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshots below) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes NOTE: The default fonts are the ones displayed below. 5. In the right pane, right click on MS Shell Dlg and click on Modify. (See screenshot above) 6. Type in the name of the font you want to use and click on OK. (See left screenshot below) NOTE: You can get the name of the font from the Font Folder Location C:\Windows\Fonts. Right click on the single font and click on Properties to see the file name. For a font group, you will need to open it first to see the single fonts in it. Be sure that you use the exact same font name that is listed. Do not include the Regular part or file extension in the font name. For example, I would type Impact instead of Impact Regular or Impact.ttf.   7. In the right pane, right click on MS Shell Dlg 2 and click on Modify. (See screenshot below step 3) 8. Type in the name of the font you want to use and click on OK. (See left screenshot below) NOTE: You can get the name of the font from the Font Folder Location C:\Windows\Fonts. Be sure that you use the exact same font name that is listed. Do not include the Regular part in the font name. For example, I would type Impact instead of Impact Regular.  9. Close regedit. 10. Logoff and logon, or restart the computer to apply the font changes. That's it,
Shawn |  Published by | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 4,452 | |
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01-15-2009
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Hi, I have adjusted some fonts in the Adavanced Apperance settings, and also the Registry for Gabriola font. But still I have some text on teh Desktop that is the default text. I would like to change it all to the same Gabriola text if possible. Any other places I need to adjust to make it so?
Thanks!
Also would just like to say, this site is great. SO much info. | My System Specs | |
01-15-2009
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
Hello Coldout,
What text location on the desktop has not changed?
Shawn | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
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01-15-2009
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I've taken a screenshot of my desktop, which shows the fonts that still seem to be default.
Example is, holding mouse over taksbar shows default text. But when I right click on Windows explorer, I have the Gabriola text.
Also Computer, Network and Recycle Bin are default fonts.
Edit: I just got the Computer, Network and Recycle Bin to Gabriola. I went through the list in Advanced Apprerance settings, (these were under Icon) which I hadn't noticed before  Thanks.
Edit 2: I have all but one changed to Gabriola font, mouse over taskbar 'tooltip' still shows default text.
I can live with it, if it is a pain to find.
Once again, thanks. Very much appreciate the info, and the help. | My System Specs | |
01-15-2009
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
No problem Cold Out.
I'm not sure where that one may be at. | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload
01-15-2009
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might have been asked....... but........
how do you make the desktop icons smaller? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Laptop OS Windows 7 x64 Build 7068 CPU Athlon X2 64 TK53 Memory 4GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce Go6150 Monitor(s) Displays 15.4" Screen Resolution 1280x1024 Hard Drives 160GB SATA Internet Speed Cable Other Info Desktop Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
eVGA 750i FTW
4GB Corsair Dominator Series DDR2 1066 (8500)
250GB Western Digital SATA
256MB ATi Radeon X1900GT
SoundBlaster Audigy
24" Samsung T240 Monitor 1920x1600
01-15-2009
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
Hello 96accord,
You can do so by right clicking on a unused area of the desktop and click on View and Small Icons.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
Last edited by Brink; 05-12-2009 at 02:30 PM..
| My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload
05-12-2009
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I too am struggling with this, option 1 works but as with Vista some fonts seem uneditable, some dialogue boxes refuse to change (delete for example), the advanced font selection list itself! (which has to be some sick joke), gadgets, RSS sidebar feeds, fonts in Outlook, insisting on the ugly Segeo / Calibri which looks dreadful with ClearType disabled.
Option 2 above, I just don't have the registry keys here on my Windows 7 RC install. At the moment Windows 7 seems worse than Vista in not allowing you to change all the fonts, so I have the clean lines to Tahoma and Trebuchet MS but with sprinklings of the ugly Segoe.
A pain.
Some examples attached.
Any ideas? | My System Specs | |
05-12-2009
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
Hello Stormy, and welcome to Seven Forums.
I'm not sure which registry entries you are missing, but here are the default entries inside the FontSubstitutes key. You can download the ZIP file, extract the .reg file, then double click on the .reg file to merge it to add them.
Hope this helps,
Shawn | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
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