Re: Changing font for dialogue message box

When I right click & select "Properties" on a file or folder in Windows
Explorer, I do not get a dark blue background. This window with my settings
mimics the "Active Title Bar" & "3D Objects" options, I've chosen. The text
is not Arial but a system font. In my system, the default fonts are MS Sans
Serif & Tahoma. I do not often tread in the registry but this is the only
place to change these font selections. RUN > regedt32.exe

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
"MS Shell Dlg"="Microsoft Sans Serif"
"MS Shell Dlg 2"="Tahoma"

*MS Shell Dlg* is the font value controlling the window you are referring
to. Choose a font that comes with it's own bold file, i.e., Lucida Sans
Demibold (TrueType) - C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\LucidaSansDemibold.ttf. Whenever I
go into the registry, I make sure I do a system back up just in case I screw
up. This isn't like MS-DOS, win.ini, system.ini, config.sys or
autoexec.bat.

The pale pixels you see around the text is called "Clear Type" and can be
switched to "Standard" through Display Properties > Appearance > Effects.
With the high quality of your LCD, this will make the text look even worse.
There is a "Clear Type Tuner" application from Microsoft just for this
anti-aliasing font smoothing. Here's the URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

This is the best I can do with providing info. I'm still a novice.
Changing the DPI setting worked for my sight requirements. I have a Dell
Inspiron 6000 which has a decent LCD but not real fancy. Maybe the above
will work for you. MB

"Surface9" <davsf@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Changing the size (DPI) under settings/advanced did indeed make the
text larger but it still uses Ariel standard, NOT ariel BOLD. The
problem is when you are in windows explorer and you right click any
item and choose "properties". You get a dialogue message box where
the title has the item you clicked on followed by PROPERTIES in dark
blue background, and then the rest of the message with a gray
backgound. This class of dialogue box uses ariel (standard), and,
although you can change the DPI by the settings/advanced/custom fonts
method (described above), there is no option to change the font style
to BOLD. That is where the problem lies. By changing the size only
(DPI), it affects every other text interface also, and still it leaves
the text in the class of dialogue boxes I am needing to see as
standard (not BOLD).

If you have a good 1080 LCD using HDMI and set the rez to 1920X1080,
you find out that the non-bold ariel text is a single pixel wide with
pale pixels surrounding each stroke, and, it is an eye-strain to read
this text, no matter how large you make it. What is needed is to make
the text style BOLD, not standard, and then the width of the strokes
would be at least two pixels wide and easy to read.

Is there a way to change the default font STYLE (ariel standard) used
in that class of dialogue boxes which include the properties dialoge
box for items in windows explorer? It needs to be BOLD and I am at a
loss to find out how to set that option. What I have to do as a work
around is to temporarily change the rez down to 1600X900 or less in
order to easily read these class of dialoge boxes. That is a messy
work-around since, there ought to be a way to tell windows to use
ariel bold, instead of standard ariel, for this class of dialogue
boxes.



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