Appearance settings font selection

[myk]

When I get into the Advanced setting of Appearance, I can only choose
from MS San Serif, System and Tahoma in the drop-down menu for the
items that are font-editable, what should I do to be able to choose
other fonts there?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Just about everything in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts. I didn't count and compare.

I had Arial through ZZZ Top listed for Icon Menu, Message box, Tooltip.

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[myk]

This is the problem, I can only choose from 3 fonts in the drop-down
list, but I have over 300 fonts installed in the fonts folder, I have
no idea why the other fonts aren't showing up in the list.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I hope that I have this figured out.

Check this setting...

Double-click Fonts in Control Panel | Tools menu |
Folder Options | TrueType Fonts tab | Make sure this is not checked:
Show only TrueType Fonts in the programs on my computer

If you have to change the setting, you must restart the computer before
the changes take effect.

If that doesn't fix it, check the following registry setting.

Open the Registry Editor...
Start | Run | Type: regedit | Click OK |
Navigate to >>
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TrueType
Value Name: TTonly
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: 0 or 1
0 = All installed fonts can be used..
1 = Only TrueType fonts can be used.

If you have to change the setting, you must restart the computer before
the changes take effect.

While your in the registry, look at...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

The value entries here define the installed fonts and their related
filenames. I.e. all the fonts in the Fonts folder should be listed here.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Panose

I cannot find any documentation, but it looks like all the fonts in the
Fonts folder should be listed here also.

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