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Disable font smoothing

I am trying to make an AutoIt script that can enable and disable font smoothing. I have made this so far:

#RequireAdmin
RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\FontSmoothing", "REG_SZ", "0")

But it doesn't seem to be working. Can anyone help me make it work?

Solution

  • You are missing the value name parameter. In this case I believe the FontSmoothing part of the path you've given is actually the value name, so you'd want:

    RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop", "FontSmoothing", "REG_SZ", "0")

    This sort of error should have been very easy to spot by looking at the RegWrite docs.

    It's also worth considering whether this code is being run on a 64 bit computer, and if so use the 64 bit CURRENT_USER hive.