Use Tahoma Font for Find Panel and Dialogs under Vista

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Just upgraded to Vista, is there anyway to specify the font used for the Find Panel and Dialogs ?

Not a big fan of the Segoe font, so have set everything back to Tahoma but in DOpus the Find Panel and dialogues seem to insist on using Segoe :cry:

Any ideas much appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

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Copy the following to *.reg file and import it to Registry, this will make all GUI elements use the Tahoma font.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]
"MS Shell Dlg 2"="Tahoma"
"MS Shell Dlg"="Tahoma"
"Helv"="Tahoma"
"MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24"="Tahoma"
"MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24"="Tahoma"
"MS Sans Serif"="Tahoma"
"System"="Tahoma"
"Microsoft Sans Serif"="Tahoma"
"MS Serif"="Tahoma"
"Times New Roman"="Tahoma"
"Times"="Tahoma"
"Small Fonts"="Tahoma"
"Tms Rmn"="Tahoma"
"Arial"="Tahoma"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"Segoe UI (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="tahomabd.ttf"
"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Arial (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Arial Italic (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Arial Bold (TrueType)"="tahomabd.ttf"
"Arial Bold Italic (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Times New Roman (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Times New Roman Italic (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Times New Roman Bold (TrueType)"="tahomabd.ttf"
"Times New Roman Bold Italic (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"Microsoft Sans Serif (TrueType)"="tahoma.ttf"
"MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)"="tahoma.ttf"
"MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)"="tahoma.ttf"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontMapper\FamilyDefaults]
"Swiss"="Tahoma"
"Roman"="Tahoma"

Important:
Don't forget to backup/export the corresponding keys before import in case you want to revert to default fonts.

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W0lfdale,

You are a star mate :smiley:, I thought I had changed all the font substitution reg keys, but appears I missed a couple - your reg file did the business !

Appreciated.

Andy

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W0lfdale: Man, this is some heavy artillery right there :slight_smile:

phatman: You might want to check out Control Panel applet dialogs for font problems like these (screenshot made on XP, but I think this window is the same on Vista - the actual color values physically cannot be edited, presumably due to the lack of space caused by the UI font being TrueType rather than a bitmap font like MS Sans Serif).

Sorry for the offtopic post, this is going to be my last one in this thread.

[quote="W0lfdale"]Copy the following to *.reg file and import it to Registry, this will make all GUI elements use the Tahoma font.
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@Alan
You're right, that change has some side effects (they are not of high impact anyway), that's why I warned him to backup the old keys in case he didn't like the result.