Windows 10: Changing the taskbar and start menu font under Windows 10 1909

Hello,

Until this morning, I was running Windows 10 1803 and had applied the registry changes to have the Segoe UI font globally replaced by Tahoma.
After I made the upgrade to Windows 10 1909, my registry settings for Font substitution were removed, so I went back and did them again. After a complete reboot, I was back to having a sharp and clear font on my desktop, in the various application menus, but alas, not in the Start menu, nor in the Taskbar.
Those two appear to still be using the Segoe UI font, and appear blurry which is very annoying. This also happens in Explorer's context menus when I right click on a folder or file, but not in the system menu, nor in any other application context menu.
I tried using "WinAero Tweaker" and "Advanced Font Changer" but they both say "Tahoma" for the various settings and yet, Start Menu, Taskbar and Explorer right click menus don't seem to care.

Has anyone else noticed this? If yes, did you find a solution to change this setting?
I checked with ProcessExplorer, it seems Explorer.exe has a direct handle to c:\windows\fonts\segoeui.ttf opened
I'm thinking of completely removing this file, but it may crash a few things around, and I can't delete it unless I dual boot in another operating system to do so.

:)

 

Changing Context Menu and Taskbar font in Win10 1909?

This has confused me. For a while I had every font changed within Windows, but the 1909 update reverted the Context Menu and Taskbar to the default Segoe. All other fonts can be changed except these. Even using WinAero Tweaker and registry edits it has no effect.

I have every font altered in WndowsMetrics registry and all the Segoe fonts changed in FontSubstitutes registry, it still has no effect.

It even ignores any changes to font smoothing turned off in Performance Options.

What confuses me even more is that I have another PC that also claims to be on 1909, yet the font is customized.

 

Fonts

Hello,

I found these steps in this forum from back in 2010:

Step 1:

I would suggest you to try these steps and check whether it helps in fixing your issue.

Open font settings by clicking on start, click on control panel, and then click on appearance and personalization, under fonts click on change font settings. And select the font size.

Step 2:

If you’re trying to change windows font size then please follow the steps below:

To change Windows fonts

1. Open Appearance Settings by clicking the Start button and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type window color, and then click Change window colors and
metrics.

2. In the Item list, click the part of Windows that you want to change the font for. For example, if you want to change the menu font, click Menu in the list. Then, make any of the following changes:

· In the Font list, click the font that you want to use.

· In the Size list, click the font size that you want.

· In the Color list, click the font color that you want.

3. Repeat these steps for each item that you want to make changes to, and then click OK.

Does that help?

 

Internet Explorer 11 Menu font size

Hi Larry,

Follow these steps to change the font size in IE11:

• Click Start menu or press Windows key on your keyboard.
• Type and click Control Panel.
• Click Appearance and Personalization and under Display, click
  Make text other items larger or smaller.
• Under Change only the text size, choose the Title bars
  in the drop-down menu and the desired font size on the drop-down menu beside it.

Let us know if the suggested steps helped.