GIF and JPEG poor display in IE6

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IE6 SP1 is not displaying GIF and JPEG images correctly --
they are fuzzy and pixillated. I'm running IE6, Office
2003, XP Pro, on a new Dell Inspiron 8500 notebook.

Images display fine in Netscape, Outlook, as wallpaper,
and in graphics apps. The problem occurs only in IE.

This has been the case since I set up this computer a few
weeks ago, and it's very annoying. Can someone help?

Thanks.
 
Here's a reply from "freddie" on 11/14/03, in response to a similar question posted on this newsgroup:

---quote---
this was happening to me and i think that i've finally
fixed it. it seems like this was happening to lots of
people with newer dell laptops with fancy high-resolution
video cards/screens.

i spent like 4 hours with a dell person on the phone who
ultimately told me that i'd have to format my hard drive
and load things separately, thank god i didn't do that.

i tried downloading an updated driver from the website of
the company that makes the video card (NVidia) - i don't
think i needed to do that but a friend was saying that
possibly IE was using a generic Microsoft XP video driver
for the card. it turns out that it IS using that type of
driver but i don't think that's the problem.

anyway there are 2 things that i did and either or one of
them worked. the link below is to the dell support page
where i found the info. first of all you need to go into
internet explorer's Internet Options under the Tools
heading, then click the Advanced tab. scroll down to the
Multimedia heading and UN-check the "enable image auto-
resizing". somebody on one of the groups said that alone
worked for them.

the second thing is to right-click on the Windows
Desktop, then click Properties. click on Settings, then
Advanced. change the DPI setting to "Normal Size (96
dpi)", then click OK and restart your system.

the net effect is that the text winds up being kind of
small, but the images on IE are super-clear. i hope this
works for everyone else.

-fdp
---end quote---

Hope this helps.
 
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