GIF Rendering Problem on IE6

[Chuck Hildebrandt]

Just got a Dell Inspiron 9300 yesterday. The default on the display is
120dpi, screen
resolution of 1920x1200. It looks fine EXCEPT: GIF files are rendered as
terribly pixilated. No problems with JPG, Flash, Media center video or any
other. Just GIF.

I thought at first this will a Dell problem, but further exploration
revealed that it is a known IE bug, since GIFs render fine in other apps,
e.g., Firefox.

What I was not able to find was a fix for this. My preference would be to
fix the GIF problem without changing DPI or screen resolution. Does anyone
have any ideas?

Thank you very much.

Chuck

 

[Guest]

I am experiencing the same problem. Any additional info on this yet?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

See this site for possible help:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/51.html
Probably just need to make a registry addition to clear this issue.

 

[indrapolak]

See this site for possible help:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/51.html
Probably just need to make a registry addition to clear this issue.

The above fix did not work for me. Still blurry gif images, even thoug
the HiRes was 1 in the registry.

I went to the dell support site and downloaded a fix :
The Dell Internet Explorer Scaling Utility.

http://tinyurl.com/8zubq

It appears that MSIE defaults to large fonts on high-res displays an
then the gif images get scaled as well (duh), throw away your high-re
monitor please.

After downloading and running the Utility you get a question to choos
between normal size or large size for fonts.

By selecting normal size for fonts (instead of large) you get
A) normal (though small) fonts in IE
B) gif images are not scaled to blurrage.

Ofcourse you can also use another browser...like FireFox which work
great for me.

I do not know whether the utility can be used on other (non-dell
high-res displays as well, or if there is an equivalent Registry fix.

Good luck,

Indra Pola


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indrapola