Thank you for your reply's. It seems there is no solution to this as neither XP home or pro can enlarge text in Limewire. I have tried the skins option but no text enlargement is possible only colour schemes which improve it slightly.

In view of the very small text size it seems odd that this problem hasn't been addressed before, hopefully someone at Limewire will see this and come up with a solution.

Thanks to all

In XP, I went to control panel, display, and the appearance tab. At the bottom is a drop down box for font size. I tried mine at a larger size and it seemed to make a difference in Limewire. However, it changes the font size for everything else too. You might like it though.