Problem:

My resolution is too high! I can't read my laptop screen...



Solution:


Here are a few tips to make your screen readable:

Most importantly: change the DPI setting in Windows (under advanced display properties). Make it 110% or so - play with it until you get fonts to a dimension that you are comfortable with.
Some applications will ignore this setting (also some Windows components but hush! don't tell anyone  ) Set the font sizes explicitly for these applications.

Use Firefox as a browser, and install the TextZoom extension; then set all the pages to load at 110% text size or whatever you're comfortable with. The TextZoom extension will require some tinkering to run on newer versions of Firefox.

Namely, you need to edit the declared max supported Firefox version: open the extension file as an archive, look for install.rdf, edit it, and look for the tag TargetApplication, and inside it Max Version. Change that to a number greater than your current FireFox version. Needless to say the TextZoom extension is not guaranteed to work with recent versions of Firefox, such as Firefox 3. It has always worked for me in Firefox 2.