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Alright, some people wanted to know how I changed the font of utorrent. The trick is to change the whole system font, so there's a bit of registry editing required.
I don't know which fonts are suitable, I've tested HaxrCorp 4088 and kroeger, and there are no problems so far. But remember to make a backup of the registry settings.
Firstly, go to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
and change the values of
MS Shell Dlg
MS Shell Dlg 2
Helv
Helvetica
Times
Tmns Rmn
to your desired font. Take the name as it appears in the fonts-directory, not the filename.
Then, create 3 new strings
MS Sans Serif
Microsoft Sans Serif
Tahoma
and again, change the value to your custom font.
Secondly, remove those fonts from the fonts-directory:
Microsoft Sans Serif
MS Serif
MS Sans Serif
Tahoma
Put them somewhere where you can easily bring them back.
And the last step is to go to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
and to change the value of
Tahoma Bold (True Type)
to your desired font. This time, take the filename (!) instead.
After restarting you should see your custom font everywhere (even in some websites).
The font names and such may differ because I have a german version of xp.
Hope that works :)
PS: If you need to change the system font more often, you can speed things up by just writing .reg files that contain the code of various fonts. So then you got a .reg file for kroeger, one for calibri etc...
12:04 pm, Friday, August 10, 2007 (1 year ago)
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this is great. thanks man
03:50 pm (1 year ago)
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super info :)
03:56 pm (1 year ago)
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wow! that's great info man, another step toward full customization!
09:13 am (1 year ago)
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That's very useful. Submit as a new so we can have this info in the front page :D
09:29 am (1 year ago)
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okay I tagged it as a news :-)
10:13 am (1 year ago)
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yay!
08:23 am (1 year ago)
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Holy cow I can't believe its that easy!
Thanks so much.
06:48 pm (1 year ago)
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What the work to customize Windows!
10:54 am (1 year ago)
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thanks a lot for that tip. works like a charm and i finally can stop reshacking out all this MS Sans Serif crap.
02:40 pm (1 year ago)
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Just tried it, works like a charm, too bad we can't change the font size with this =(
06:14 am (1 year ago)
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Hey all. You have to be careful what you change it to because I did this a while back and had some issues with size. Like aakio said, you can't change the size so if you have something like, say, kroeger 05_55 which is really only supposed to be viewed at size 6, when you get to a dialog that forces size 8 or whatnot it blows it up. Also, this screwed with windows installer for some reason. It's still useable when you install stuff but the graphics look all funny. Another thing, certain other dialogs will have stuff left out of them, like preferences in Firefox, you might be stuck without certain sections and not able to resize to see them. Be warned!
03:49 pm (1 year ago)
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Yes, true, and you can have problems with colour selection dialogs too, i set my font to arial and couldn't type more than 2 numbers in some colour boxes anymore, not so handy ay ;)
03:59 pm (1 year ago)
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yes, you probably get less problems if you use a font which size is similar to ms shell dlg / tahoma.
07:34 am (1 year ago)
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There's a utility for this called displayset. Kinda hard to find, but It's out there.
09:29 am (1 year ago)
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unfortunately it's not for xp
01:33 pm (1 year ago)
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I've been using it on xp for quite some time.
07:10 pm (1 year ago)
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Okay, I tried it out, but it doesn't touch the system font nor its size. You know, for example the font that appears in the properties window of any file. Or am I missing an option?
btw, here's a link to dl the tool:
http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/displayset.zip
10:45 am (1 year ago)
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