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In Windows, there is the "Window Color and Appearance" dialog. There you can change: title, message box, menu, status bar,icon fonts... However you cannot change the default window font.

It is always "Tahoma" 8.25

I can change its face by changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes\"MS Shell Dlg 2" value: as a result I have "Tahoma", 14

But it does not change the size. - how can I change 8.25 to something higher, to make the font legible?

Just out of curiosity, is there any plausible reason for Microsoft not allowing to change it?

If I change dpi scaling it will change the rendering size of all fonts without changing the size. It also causes some applications to have controls outside the window boundary.

What I would like to do is to set default windows dialog font to "Segoe UI", 14 (just like I can change messagebox font).

This question was already asked on: answers.microsoft.com but never answered

Also on: superuser.com a kind of similar question was asked, but no usable answer about the font size was given.

Here a screenshot of what font size I would like to change:

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  • Which version of Windows are you running?
    – Ultrasonic54321
    Commented Mar 17, 2018 at 14:03
  • @Ultrasonic54321 Windows7, but this question also applies to WinXP, WinVista, Win8 and Win10.
    – Kleajmp
    Commented Mar 17, 2018 at 16:08

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Change the values of: "MS Shell Dlg 2"="Tahoma" "MS Shell Dlg"="Microsoft Sans Serif" To a bigger font like ; KacstBook (normal ), Noto Sans Lao (big), Noto Kufi Arabic (very big). Example

"MS Shell Dlg 2"="Noto Sans Lao" "MS Shell Dlg"="Noto Sans Lao"

That will make it more readable.

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