JPEG's appearing blurry

[Ben Rum]

I am seeing JPEG's appear blurry, as if not fully downloaded, in some places
on my PC. Mainly Internet Explorer. Even the "Start", "Shutdown" and "Stand
By" buttons appear this way..

However, if I save a website JPEG locally, and view it in Windows Picture &
Fax Viewer it appears normal....

Is there some OS setting that does this?

The PC is a Dell laptop (Latitude D505) and I'm not sure if its an WinXP
setting or PC Setting..

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I am seeing JPEG's appear blurry, as if not fully downloaded, in some
places
on my PC. Mainly Internet Explorer. Even the "Start", "Shutdown" and
"Stand
By" buttons appear this way..

However, if I save a website JPEG locally, and view it in Windows
Picture &
Fax Viewer it appears normal....

Is there some OS setting that does this?

The PC is a Dell laptop (Latitude D505) and I'm not sure if its an
WinXP
setting or PC Setting..

Thanks

Does the image look clearer when you hit the Refresh toolbar button? If
so, that is probably the wonderful accelerator program you got from your
ISP. It downloads only half of the picture's pixels to give you a
faster download of the page but a fuzzier one. Great idea, huh, to lie
to their customers that they are getting an accelerated connection rate
(and might even charge for it) but really are only delivering a partial
version of each image? Hell, you could speed you connection up even
more if you blocked images completely so as not to waste any bandwidth
and time to download them.

If the above isn't your problem, check the DPI setting for your screen.
Right-click on desktop and select Properties, or run the Display applet
from Control Panel, Settings panel, Advanced button, General tab, set
the DPI (96 is the default, I believe).

The specs for LCD screens usually list a "native" resolution (i.e., the
resolution at which the screen has the correct number of pixels without
having to use interpolation to emulate other resolutions). See if
switching to the native resolution clears up your screen.

 

[Guest]

What a scam! anything for a buck these days.

that is probably the wonderful accelerator program you got from your
ISP. It downloads only half of the picture's pixels to give you a
faster download of the page but a fuzzier one. Great idea, huh, to lie
to their customers that they are getting an accelerated connection rate
(and might even charge for it) but really are only delivering a partial
version of each image?

 

[Ben Rum]

If the above isn't your problem, check the DPI setting for your screen.
Right-click on desktop and select Properties, or run the Display applet
from Control Panel, Settings panel, Advanced button, General tab, set the
DPI (96 is the default, I believe).

Yep, it was the DPI, it had been set to 120, which was kinda stretching the
pics and stuff....

I doubt my ISP would be bright enough to be able to scam the browsing
stats!!

Thanks for your help!