Change Icon Title Fonts in Program Manager

Last reviewed: May 6, 1997
Article ID: Q100082

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5

You can change the size and name of the font used by Program Manager for icon titles. To do so, go to one of the following Registry subkeys:

   HKEY_USERS\Default\Control Panel\Desktop
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Change the following two values

   IconTitleSize
   IconTitleFaceName

to the size and name (respectively) of the font you want. For example, the default values are:

   IconTitleSize : REG_SZ : 9
   IconTitleFaceName : REG_SZ : Helv

The value

   IconTitleStyle

which can currently be implemented in Windows 3.1 to change the Program Manager font to bold, cannot be used to change the font in Windows NT 3.1. While the value is documented, changing it from the default of "0" to "1" in the Registry does not work. However, in Windows NT 3.5 this entry works as expected.

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Version : 3.1 3.5
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: May 6, 1997
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