Lucida Grande Default Vista Font?

Is there a way I can make Lucida Grande as the default font for the whole OS, Vista Home Basic x86?

Thanks.

There's no legal way to change ALL Windows shell fonts that I know, you have to brute force it by replacing the shell fonts at the registry (setting font substitutes).

In Control Panel > Window Color and Appearance change all the elements you can to Lucida Grande; this does not change all the fonts in the shell (thanks MS) so here comes the brute force: In registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes" change the following fonts value to Lucida Grande:

MS Shell Dlg 2

MS Shell Dlg

Segoe UI

System

MS Sans Serif

Microsoft Sans Serif

Reboot, and that´s it.

Some considerations:

- Remember that if you try to use these fonts in any program (e.g. MS Word) they are always gonna be substituted by Lucida Grande.

- I've found programs that don't renderize oK, or show errors (at least with font Myriad Pro Semibold, which I use as a shell font substitute), but these are rare exceptions.

By the way, I'd recommend using GDI++ to thicken the font. Good luck.

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