VisualEffects specifies additional display settings.

This setting has no effect on Server Core installations of Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012.

Child Elements

FontSmoothing

Specifies whether font smoothing is enabled, and which type of font smoothing is enabled.

SystemDefaultBackgroundColor

Specifies the system default Windows background color scheme appearing on first boot, and on LogonUI if no user is selected.

Valid Passes

oobeSystem

Parent Hierarchy

Applies To

For the list of the supported Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.

XML Example

The following XML output shows ClearType enabled for font smoothing.

  Copy Code 
<VisualEffects>
   <FontSmoothing>ClearType</FontSmoothing>
</VisualEffects>

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