remixedcat, on 03 October 2012 - 22:54, said:
how did you change the font in windows 8??? the dialog that was in windows 7 is gone for that....
The method I personally used involved editing the registry (regedit)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
set the following as blank:
"Segoe UI (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"=""
"Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"=""
then went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
and set:
"Segoe UI"="MyNewFont"
"Segoe UI Light"="MyNewFont"
"Segoe UI Semibold"="MyNewFont"
"Segoe UI Symbol"="MyNewFont"
with MyNewFont being the name of the pixel font that I use (which is actually called Kroeger 05_55)
However, there is a cleaner (and probably safer, depending on your level of experience) way of doing it using a utility written by
PC Magazine from 11 years ago called "
DisplaySet." DisplaySet essentially brings back the functionality of the "Appearance and Settings" menu (lets you change windows colors, fonts, font sizes, etc) that was removed from Windows 8 if you don't feel like editing the registry by hand. Surprisingly it still works even to this day.