alright well the screen is still slightly blurry but at this point i'm assuming that it is just the fact that it is an lcd screen. But if there was some way that i could get the LCD screen to sharpen the text because i honestly feel like my vision is slowly deteriorating as i stare at the screen. but the performance properties did help some of my issues such as the dragging window. i made sure all the boxes were checked. so thank you bobby, gerbil, and caperjack.

i also have one other little problem, all of my programs that i run are running at a much higher mem usage than on my other computer and than all my friends. such as skype and aim on my other computer and on my friends computer runs at like 20,000k mem usage but on mine it runs at about 50,000k. any ideas on how to cut this down

Did you get more RAM than in your old machine? Cos windows looks at what you have and then assigns memory to each process so that while keeping a good reserve page faults are minimised. So withmore RAM, there will be fewer read/writes to page memory because processes are given more memory to play in.
And your LCD screen should be as sharp as... on a white space on your screen you should be able to just make out individual pixels... so that's how sharp it can be. It has to be a video card issue. I think.

alright well just to let you all know i wasnt crazy, my screen really was blurry. I found out that my graphics card driver wasnt updating so it was stuck at version 76. So I went out and got a new one and now i'm updated to 100 something and the screen looks rediculously perfect.
i want to thank you all very much for you help and patience in this issue because i really was about to freak out.