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It is important that you should have the best possible visibility while reading as well as working with Windows XP,not only this reduces the eye strain but also increases efficiency.
There is the ClearType technology that ships with XP but is not enabled by default.
Enabling it on a laptop or a LCD desktop will give much better results than enabling it on a CRT desktop.
Here is how it can be turned on :
To enable ClearType, right-click on the Desktop and choose Properties>Appearance> Effects. The Effects dialog box appears. Check the box next to “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts.” Select ClearType from the drop-down box, click OK, then click OK again. You’ll notice the difference in how type is displayed.
One thing about enabling this is that the effects are only seen after a login to system,not before it.
To make the ClearType effects before login to XP,a simple registry hack can be carried out.
1.Open registry editor (Start>Run>regedt32.exe)
2.Locate HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop
3.Open the FontSmoothingType entry and change its value data to 2
4.Exit the registry editor and reboot.
Peace.