Thursday, January 7, 2016

Registry Font value can cause odd effects

If this key is changed for any reason some applications may no longer display dialog boxes correctly.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes\MS Shell Dlg       REG_SZ      Microsoft Sans Serif

For example if the key is changed to this value and machine rebooted

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes\MS Shell Dlg       REG_SZ      Tahoma

Paint then has a problem with its edit colors dialog box.  The Red, Green and Blue box can no longer have 3 numerals entered into them.  Only 2 can be entered.