Pictures in IE 6 are blochy

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Don

The picture I get in IE 6 are blochy -- similar to the
blocks that TV uses to hide a person's face. I have
updated my video drivers and Gateway has tried to help but
to no avail. I have also reloaded IE 6. I have netscape
on my computer and the pictures are fine using netscape.
Any ideas on how to correct this problem?
 
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP

Don said:
The picture I get in IE 6 are blochy -- similar to the
blocks that TV uses to hide a person's face. I have
updated my video drivers and Gateway has tried to help but
to no avail. I have also reloaded IE 6. I have netscape
on my computer and the pictures are fine using netscape.
Any ideas on how to correct this problem?

Are you using any program that's supposed to speed up your downloading and
browsing?

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Ben A.

Frank Saunders said:
Try turning that off and see if the pictures improve.

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Don that's cause Earthlink accelerator ruins the images. In fact, so
does netzero's accelerator (netspeed) and the other isp's like msn,
topspeed etc. I use the Proxyconn accelerator which has from I have
seen the best image quality and is also faster. You should try it,
they have a 7 day free trial; so you can't loose.
 
D

Don

I disabled it but the pictures are still bad.
-----Original Message-----
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" <[email protected]> wrote

Don that's cause Earthlink accelerator ruins the images. In fact, so
does netzero's accelerator (netspeed) and the other isp's like msn,
topspeed etc. I use the Proxyconn accelerator which has from I have
seen the best image quality and is also faster. You should try it,
they have a 7 day free trial; so you can't loose.
.
 
F

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

Don said:
I disabled it but the pictures are still bad.

The reason for blurry images is that IE6 is set up to resize the
images based on the Display DPI setting. Many laptops are shipped with
higher DPI than the default and set IE6 to resize the image.

You can either set the DPI to the default (Normal - 96) or remove
IE6's UseHR registry key to deactivite image resizing. Here are the
relevant information (from Microsoft Knowledge Base):


Images Scaling in Internet Explorer (hi-res)
============================================

How to Activate Scaling
Internet Explorer 6 and later automatically adjusts the scale on
higher resolution systems when the DPI setting is higher than 96 DPI
and the "UseHR" registry value is added to the registry. These are
usually done by the manufacturers of higher resolution systems.

Set the DPI
These are the steps for changing the DPI setting on your system.

Right-click the Windows desktop to display the context menu.
Click Properties on the context menu to display the Display Properties
dialog.
Click the Settings tab on the Display Properties dialog to display the
Settings tab.
Click the Advanced button on the Settings tab to display the monitor
properties dialog.
Select a DPI setting in the Display frame of the monitor properties
dialog to change the DPI setting.
Restart your system to allow the changes to take effect.
Add the UseHR Registry Entry
The UseHR value is added to the Main key under "Internet Explorer" as
follows:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Right Click in the right pane and select New | DWORD value and set its data
to 00000001

See also
JPEG images appear distorted in Internet Explorer 6
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=828682

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Ron

Don that's cause Earthlink accelerator ruins the images. In fact, so
does netzero's accelerator (netspeed) and the other isp's like msn,
topspeed etc. I use the Proxyconn accelerator which has from I have
seen the best image quality and is also faster. You should try it,
they have a 7 day free trial; so you can't loose.

Ben, good call; I checked out Proxyconn Accelerator and you're right.
There's a press release by an ISP provider of Proxyconn stating that
they tested Proxyconn with all the leading competitors over a 3 month
period and found that Proxyconn beat everyone - fastest, image quality
great, etc! I'm sure they tested them against netzero, earthlink
accelerator and propel,slipstream data.

I'm signing up today for the free trial. thanks for the tip
Ron Wills
 

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