Windows Explorer fonts

Published on January 25, 2008 By Nicoll In WinCustomize Talk

Does anyone know where in the skin editor the settings are for the font size for windows explorer?
Is there any guide out there explaining exactly which fonts are adjusted with each font settings?
Thanks for your help.

Comments

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Jan 25, 2008

Open the UIS file for the skin and search for system fonts. There you will see this text...
[SystemFonts]
SystemMenu=0
SystemIcon=0
SystemStatus=0
SYstemMessage=0
SystemSmallCaption=0
SystemCaption=0

[SystemFont0]
FontName=Segoe UI
FontHeight=14
FontWeight=600

Those fonts are what the explorer see's and use's as it's system wide fonts.
But I have found that if you leave the fonts for these items in there...it will confuse the fonts used by the skin for like the start menu and some areas for like office and other programs the like. As seen here is the correct way so it does not confuse them...
[SystemFonts]
SystemMenu=0
SYstemMessage=0
SystemStatus=0

[SystemFont0]
FontName=Segoe UI
FontHeight=14
FontWeight=600

This would be for Vista though. XP it really does not matter. The first settings would be the basic and the one to use.

SGT

Nicoll

on Jan 26, 2008

Thank you very much. Much appreciated you took the time to help.
Ian.

Nicoll

on Jan 26, 2008

GT, sorry to ask this but could you be more specific, I opened the file with skinStudio but how do I perform a search?? I tried "Find" but it found nothing!
After I do eventually find them do I just delete the extra lines?
Thanks again.

Bebi Bulma

on Jan 26, 2008

(SKS5) Misc > Fonts for classic widgets, try setting all those there to whatever font you want (I never mess with any ui files).

Other fonts: misc > presets > font presets. Some skinners helpfully name them according to where they're used, some don't really name them at all.

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