Web graphics and Images Not Crisp

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Diego

This may sound strange, but yeasterday I noticed that
images and graphics viewed though IE6 are just not real
crisp - they look like you are trying to look at a high
res graphic with a low res vid card? I can view movie
files, other pitures and graphic files on my hard drive
and they are crystal clear.

This just started a few days ago, and I have not changed
anything on my PC. I have a Dell Latitude laptop p4, 2.0
Ghz, 1 GB Ram with Win XP Pro SR-1. I have had no real
issues with this, but it is just annoying.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this may be?

Thanks.
 
Diego said:
This may sound strange, but yeasterday I noticed that
images and graphics viewed though IE6 are just not real
crisp - they look like you are trying to look at a high
res graphic with a low res vid card? I can view movie
files, other pitures and graphic files on my hard drive
and they are crystal clear.

This just started a few days ago, and I have not changed
anything on my PC. I have a Dell Latitude laptop p4, 2.0
Ghz, 1 GB Ram with Win XP Pro SR-1. I have had no real
issues with this, but it is just annoying.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this may be?

Thanks.
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I don't know if the Latitude has the same less than desirable setting as the
Inspiron:

The reason for blurry images is that IE6 is set up to resize the
images based on the Display DPI setting. Dell ships its Inspirons 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
 
Thanks very much for your reply.

My latitude is set to 96 DPI and I still have the issue.
It is just on IE graphics ands images, so I am sure it is
not a video hardware issue. Do you have any other
suggestions.

I did add the registry key you mentioned in the article.

Diego
 
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