JSI Tip 6801. How do I enable ClearType on the Windows XP Welcome / logon screen?

Jerold Schulman

June 3, 2003

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ClearType smoothes the edges of screen fonts, and works extra well on LCD devices, flat screen monitors and laptop screens.

To enable ClearType on the Welcome / logon screen:

1. Copy / Paste the following to a ClrLogOn.reg file:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002

2. Merge the ClrLogOn.reg file with your registry, or run regedit /s ClrLogOn.reg.



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