Vista - Font changes by itself

Hi All,

Sometime last weekend my desktop font changed for no reason. I can change it back by going into the Appearance settings and reselecting the Windows Aero color scheme. Then next time I log on again, it's changed back to how it was. See attachment for how it looks on screen. The before image is how it is when I log on, after is how it is after I have reselected. If I look at the advanced properties either before or after, it claims to be using Segoe UI, but these are clearly two different fonts.

I have had other desktop settings that do not persist after logging off, like the control panel appearance. When I log on it is on icons, so I change it to list. Then next time I look, it's back to icons again. It's driving me mad.

Hello JMorris,

It looks like ClearType is not being used with the before image. When I toggle it on and off, it looks like your images. This tutorial will show you how to turn ClearType back on if needed.

ClearType Font Settings

I'm not sure what may be turning it off for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Oh yeah, that will be the VB app I've been running that turns font smoothing off. It worked ok in XP, but I guess it isn't reenabling smoothing correctly. I'll look into it.

Thanks for the heads up.

Your welcome JMorris. Hope you get the VB app sorted out.

Shawn