Apple 30" Flat Screen on PC (Microsoft XP)

I am thinking of purchasing the above monitor and new video card to use with my PC. I would use the monitor at optimum resolution, which I understand would make any websites or wordprocessing, spreadsheet, or other non images with extremely small icon and fonts. I would wish to utilize the optimum resolution for photoshop and image work on the large flat screen but allow for non-image work to be comfortably large on the screen. How could this work?
Dell XPS ATP Video card   Windows XP  

You can increase the dpi setting - right click on your desktop, choose properties; click the settings tab and choose advanced. On the general tab, you can choose either 96 or 120dpi, or set your own custom value.

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