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I am running windows xp pro in my home. Look at a lot of auction listings.
Many pictures viewed appear a-okay, others are so pixilated, I can barely
make out any detail. Where do I go to adjust settings and what is the best
setting for a broad range of views? Thank you.
 
vintage733 said:
I am running windows xp pro in my home. Look at a lot of auction
listings. Many pictures viewed appear a-okay, others are so
pixilated, I can barely make out any detail. Where do I go to adjust
settings and what is the best setting for a broad range of views?
Thank you.
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Turn off the Internet Accelerator supplied by your ISP.

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vintage733 said:
I am running windows xp pro in my home. Look at a lot of auction listings.
Many pictures viewed appear a-okay, others are so pixilated, I can barely
make out any detail. Where do I go to adjust settings and what is the best
setting for a broad range of views? Thank you.
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Thank you, Frank but that was not the solution. I tried changing my screen
resolution settings as well, but that helped only minimally. I wonder if when
having this problem looking only basically at photos posted on auction sites,
it's because of the various sizes of the photos submitted by all the
different parties and there just ISN'T ONE SINGLE setting that will best view
all of the different sizes? As I say, some shots are perfect, others
horrible. It's hard to figure a setting that's best for all of the variety....
 
=?Utf-8?B?dmludGFnZTczMw==?= said:
I am running windows xp pro in my home. Look at a lot of auction listings.
Many pictures viewed appear a-okay, others are so pixilated, I can barely
make out any detail. Where do I go to adjust settings and what is the best
setting for a broad range of views? Thank you.
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Are you paying for a "5 times faster" isp deal? If so, disable it and
get your money back.
 
vintage733 said:
Thank you, Frank but that was not the solution. I tried changing my
screen resolution settings as well, but that helped only minimally. I
wonder if when having this problem looking only basically at photos
posted on auction sites, it's because of the various sizes of the
photos submitted by all the different parties and there just ISN'T
ONE SINGLE setting that will best view all of the different sizes? As
I say, some shots are perfect, others horrible. It's hard to figure a
setting that's best for all of the variety....
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Another reason for blurry images is that IE6 is set up to resize the images
based on the Display DPI setting. Dell ships its Inspirons (as do some other
laptop manufacturers) 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

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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Are you paying for a "5 times faster" isp deal? If so, disable it and
get your money back.
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Plato, are you referring to ISP accelerators or to ISP bandwidth
offers? My ISP, knology.net, sent me an email the other day
touting its new 7 Mbs service for only $15 more a month than my
present 2 Mbs service.

According to the ISP, the 7 Mbs service is mainly for "gamers" but it
seems as if it would benefit me, too since I'm constantly prowling the
Net.
 
vintage733 said:
I am running windows xp pro in my home. Look at a lot of auction listings.
Many pictures viewed appear a-okay, others are so pixilated, I can barely
make out any detail. Where do I go to adjust settings and what is the best
setting for a broad range of views? Thank you.
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You can expend effort studying imaging on your PC, and tweaking your monitor
and IE6, but I suspect the problems you're experiencing are more simplistic.

When viewing sites such as auction settings, one must take into consideration
that the photographers of many items may simply be lousy photographers using
lousy cameras who then compound their mistakes by saving photographs as
..jpg files with only 20% resolution to load faster on web sites. In other words,
they produce/compound crap and then load it onto their web sites. Photographers
and cameras are most definitely not created equally.

Many people care about the items they offer for sale, and take appropriate
measures to produce quality images. Others don't know any better and use
$34.99 640x480 digital cameras (or web cams). And then there those who
are out to make a quick buck and don't care about the images they upload.

Suspect most of the image problems you're seeing are because of the
difference in photographers and the images they save for the web. If I
want you to buy my $1999.99 colonial table, I'm going to do everything
in my power to attract you to the sale. If, however, I'm trying to sell you
one of Elvis Presley's molars for $9.99, I'm not going to waste much effort
on the image. Good luck!
 
Uncle said:
Plato, are you referring to ISP accelerators or to ISP bandwidth
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Accelerators, which merely either shrink graphics or point you to the
isps cached page archive so you dont have to hop via 10 computers to get
the site loaded.
offers? My ISP, knology.net, sent me an email the other day
touting its new 7 Mbs service for only $15 more a month than my
present 2 Mbs service.
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That sounds legit. However, please note that they cant guarantee that
speed as the maximum speed you can get is only the speed of the slowest
server in the line. ie when you view a webpage or download a file, most
often there are many hops.

There are few free utils that show you the number of pcs that it took
for your to view a page, and report the speed of each. Forget the names
of them now tho.
 
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