This question hasn't been raised before or at least I can't find a solution to my problem. If any user use East Asian fonts (Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean), one will install the fonts/IME through Windows XP Regional and Language Options, Control Panel applet. However the fonts provided aren't designed for ClearType. Thankfully Microsoft release the fonts for XP available for download recently. The fonts are set to be default renderer for East Asian characters in Windows Vista and Server 2008. I have downloaded and installed all of them. Here is then the problem. Windows XP IME default is to render East Asian characters with the old non-ClearType fonts. I wanted to set the new ClearType fonts as default for my systems so that I do not have to configure application individually (browsers for example). Is there any way? The closest hint i can get is to edit the registry those under this tree HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\MIME\Database\Codepage\*. Thanks.