Use Linux? Use Wine? Want smoothed fonts?
If you don't like links, here's what you do. Put this in, say, whatever.reg:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "FontSmoothing"="2" "FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002 "FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578 "FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001
Then as a normal user run regedit whatever.reg. Done!