Enable Font Smoothing on the Welcome Screen (Windows XP)

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Enable Font Smoothing on the Welcome Screen (Windows XP)
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Windows XP includes a new feature called Clear Type which is designed to make fonts more readable on LCD and low resolution screens. This tweak allows you to enable font smoothing on the Welcome screen where it is normally disabled.

Open your registry and find the key below.

To enable font smoothing, set the value of "FontSmoothing" to "2" and the value of "FontSmoothingType" to "2".

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.


(Default)	REG_SZ	(value not set)
FontSmoothing	REG_SZ	2
FontSmoothingType	REG_DWORD	0x00000002 (2)


	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Settings:

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
System Key: [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
Name: FontSmoothing, FontSmoothingType
Value: (0 = disabled, 2 = enabled)

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Disclaimer: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. We cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk.

Last Modified: April 24, 2003

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