Comments on: Fix Windows Vista’s Fonts!

By: cwylie0

cwylie0 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:40:51 +0000

I am running Firefox 3.5.3 with RedShift v.3 theme. This hack makes it display pretty ugly and illegible, I do not recommend it. However, the undo that someone earlier posted prevents another of my programs (Keepass) from opening.

By: Alex2007

Alex2007 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:17:36 +0000

Dear Chris!
Great Job!
Would You please to Help with similar problem?
Default Windows Font is too small for me – How can I change it in registry?
It’s impossible to change by “Advanced Appearence” in Vista ot Windows 7 – menu is inactive for “Window Text:”.

Thank You!

By: Alex2007

Alex2007 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:13:15 +0000

Wrote alot – but it wont post here…

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:43:33 +0000

The patch goes a bit too far, as it effectively removes Arial, Tahoma, and Times New Roman from the system, severely affecting Word, Outlook, and many other apps. You can get most of UI improvement with a less radical change: get Pirillo’s ZIp file, extract the .reg file, rename the extension to .txt, and double-click to edit. Then delete all lines that start with “Times New Roman.., “Arial…, and “Tahoma… Rename the file extension from .txt back to .reg, double-click it, and confirm that you want to merge it with the registry.

By: herman

herman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:40:14 +0000

CHRIS !!!! You re my life saver. what a nice FIX.

By: Thankful Dude

Thankful Dude — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:04:32 +0000

Brilliant, Chris!

The same issue exists in Windows 7 and your hack resolves it. It’s a gazillion times better this way. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: Jordan Moore

Jordan Moore — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:26:39 +0000

Hi, would just like to say that i used this hack.

I found one problem, users of flash cs4 usually WILL NOT be able to boot flash cs4 whilst this mod is active.
(program glitch not mod glitch)
So if you use this reg mod i would recommend creating an anti-mod first. This is easily done by backing up the registry and locating the fonts that are changed with the mod and creating a registry patch which sets them back to default. (well, if you want to for any reason)

By: roger

roger — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:03:26 +0000

worked like a charm. I “accidentally” deleted the font mapper files in the Vista 64 registry while trying to fix another Acrobat problem and was having problems with large fonts, your fix fixed it just fine, thanks! Acrobat still wont make a pdf because it thinks it cant find Courier, which is installed, but that’s another problem.

roger

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:21:27 +0000

Does it need a reboot cuz i just applied this patch and can’t see any difference o.O

By: Andras Zoltan

Andras Zoltan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:19:46 +0000

I used this registry fix to make Valve’s steam work again – however there is one big problem…

Have you tried printing a PDF document from either FoxIt or Acrobat that uses any of the fonts that the patch substitutes for? Good luck reading it, it comes out all garbled! The only way I was able to fix it was to reverse this registry patch and now they both work fine again.

So thanks, but ultimately perhaps the thing to do is to actually install the fonts that are missing.

By: Bd

Bd — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:11:02 +0000

This helpt me to fix the problem with norton ghost 14 who gives an error about arial font being not good. My many thx.

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