Scrawny font in the Finder's sidebar

Hi,
Is there anyway to make the font bolder or larger, in the Finder's window, side bar?
This is on both my pb & macbook pro, running Tiger, Panther does not display it the same way.
TIA
Eme '~[)

Hi,
AFAIK, only by changing the screen's resolution.
Thanks for the replies, my Pb is at apple for a logic board replacement so i do not have that to check if changing the resolution would help, albeit it was set at the highest & didn't have this issue prior to the erase & reinstall of os 10.4.9.
My screen resolution is set at 1680 X1050 millions, on the macbook pro.
1280 stretched shows it bolder on my macbook pro ,, which doesn't show what I see when showing a screenshot on photobucket, for either only looks bolder when viewing on the 1280 X 1024, however, yikes not the answer for me, stretched out & warped.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i56/mebe513/reg.jpg
has it always been this way?
On the macbook pro yes always shown this way,
This is how the Powerbook use to show the sidebar pre reinstall of the os 10.4.9
I'm thinking it nay have something to do with having all the subsequent updates done on the Powerbook, vs. doing the 10.4.9 after the reinstall.
when i get my PB back i will reinstall the os adding the delta updates to see if that changes the look of the text.
Thank you, both.
Eme'~[)
Bee, robust is a good word;-)

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