Prohibit selection of visual style font size
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User
Category
Control Panel > Personalization
Supported on
Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only

Supported OS tags: Windows2000, WindowsServer2003, WindowsXP

Prevents users from changing the size of the font in the windows and buttons displayed on their screens. If this setting is enabled, the "Font size" drop-down list on the Appearance tab in Display Properties is disabled. If you disable or do not configure this setting, a user may change the font size using the "Font size" drop-down list on the Appearance tab.

Internal name
CPL_Personalization_LockFontSize
Policy ID
95146421fc42
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name
NoSizeChoice
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value name
NoSizeChoice
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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