If your PC has Windows XP, there is a neat feature called ClearType that, for some reason, ships disabled. It changes your on-screen text from looking like the top box to looking like the text in the bottom box:

There are two ways to turn it on. The cool way is to go the on-line ClearType Tuner at the Microsoft site. It gives you several boxes of text and asks you to click on the box that looks the best. You do that a couple of times, and then it sets your PC for the best resolution. (Kind of like at the optometrist when he goes back and forth between different lenses repeatedly and asks which looks better.)

The other way just turns it on or off and doesn't give you any options. It just uses the default options. To do that:

1. Right click anywhere on your desktop and select "Properties".
2. Click the "Appearance" tab at the top of the window.
3. Click the "Effects" button.
4. Make sure that there is a check mark in the box in front of "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts", and make sure that "ClearType" is displayed in the drop down box immediately below that.
5. Click the "OK" button.

Hope you like it.