SGD Cleartype

I sometimes connect to my own Windows XP workstation using Sun SGD (Sun Secure Global Desktop (Soon to be Oracle SGD). I was thinking about cleartype.

This isn't something new that I'm claiming, mostly just a way to document what I'd found for the next time I need it.

I remembered that there was some cleartype hack, and managed to re-find the following ClearType in Remote Desktop with XP - and wondered if it would work with SGD (considering that it uses a different RDP client internally).

So, using regedit, in the following location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminalServerWinStations

I added the key

AllowFontAntiAlias

that has a dword value of

00000001 (1)

Now the site I took this from says Windows XP SP3 - and that's what I'm using. A quick reboot and then everything is better.

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The screenshot above was taken via SGD AFTER cleartype enabled, here showing it zoomed-in:

...which looks about right from here.

This should work just as well with a virtual Windows XP instance in a VDI environment.