Disabling any kind of font smoothing on Vista

[Emmanuel Stapf [ES]]

Although there is the control panel to not use font smoothing in Vista,
it has no effects whatsoever on the various dialogs/windows from
Explorer (e.g. Control Panel, UAC dialogs, Explorer, ...)

What is the proper way to disable this altogether?

While we are on the subject of fonts, the Segoe UI font doesn't render
great at all, how can we switch the default font to be Tahoma all the
time everywhere (I know about the Advanced Appearance dialog, but again
it only affects normal applications, not the Control Panel, Windows
Explorer,...).

Thanks for your helps,
Manu

 

[Emmanuel Stapf [ES]]

That's what I was saying in my original post, I did what the links are
suggesting, but still they don't have effects in most windows explorer
windows or control panels.

Regards,
Manu

;501026']Although there is the control panel to not use font smoothing
in Vista,
it has no effects whatsoever on the various dialogs/windows from
Explorer (e.g. Control Panel, UAC dialogs, Explorer, ...)

What is the proper way to disable this altogether?

While we are on the subject of fonts, the Segoe UI font doesn't render
great at all, how can we switch the default font to be Tahoma all the
time everywhere (I know about the Advanced Appearance dialog, but again
it only affects normal applications, not the Control Panel, Windows
Explorer,...).

Thanks for your helps,
Manu

Hi Manu,

This tutorial will show you how to turn off "ClearType" font smoothing
in Vista.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/83834-cleartype-font-settings.html


When you changed the fonts from Segoe UI to Tahoma, did you select each
"Item", in the "Advanced Appearance" settings, and change the font for
it? See this tutorial for what I mean.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/78281-advanced-appearance.html

Shawn