Changing font in windows 7 and below is easy but not so easy on windows 8 and above. To successfully do this, follow the steps below carefully
Important Notice
Before proceeding, you must be comfortable playing around with your Registry (regedit)
Ensure to backup your registry items before editing
How to change fonts on Windows 8 & 10
Follow the steps below to change fonts on windows 8 and above
Press WinKey + R
type regedit and press enter
navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\
you should edit only items with "FONT" in their name. Example is in the pic below (editing Caption Font)
Now over to the tricky part (successfully editting the valuedata)
DO NOT delete any dot mistakenly unless instructed to do so
If the font name you intend to use is longer than the original font name
--count how many letters more then delete the same amount of dots from the end.
Example replacing "segoe UI" with "bloody MT condensed"
--segoe ui has 8 characters (including the space) while bloody MT condensed has 19 characters
--replace all the characters one after the other.
--when there is no more character to replace, place the new characters in between the dots available.
--Now we need to delete some dots to replace the surplus characters we just added (19-8=11).
--delete 11 dots from the end part of the valuedata and finally click on OK
if the font name you intend to use is shorter than the original font name
--count how many letters less then add the same amount of dots to the end.
Restart your system
This post was last modified: 04-10-2019, 04:13 PM by X3non.