While playing around with touch screen layouts, I noticed that the text didn't look as nice (anti-aliased) as it did in the original photoshop design.  I was getting close to replacing all text with PNG versions in order to maintain the smoothness of the edges, when I realized I didn't have ClearType turned on.

ClearType is a feature which was first available in Windows XP, designed to make fonts look better on LCDs.  While I personally never use it, I figured it would be worth a shot, since the touch screen is a device I don't use for personal computing, it's just an appliance.  The difference is pretty big, and looks very good in a touch screen environment:

^{ClearType disabled}

^{ClearType enabled}

See the difference?  I started looking at the screenshots people have posted of their touch screen setups, and I noticed many do not have this feature enabled (by default, it is not turned on under Windows XP), so below are the very simple instructions on how to turn this feature on.  The instructions below are for Windows XP:

1. Go to your control panel (or right click on the desktop) and select Display Properties.
   
2. Click the Appearance tab
   Click the Effects... button:
   
3. Change the 2nd drop down box from Standard to ClearType:
   

If you have enabled it, and aren't happy with the results, you can adjust the ClearType settings using the url below:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/step1.aspx