XP Toolbar & Office 2003 resolution low/pixilated after reinstall

[becker163]

I wiped my hard drive clean preformed an reinstall of XP Professional and
Office 2003. I seem to have everything up and running, functionally. However,
during the reinstallation, the XP Toolbar (and any Office programs) lost
their sharpness. They all are low res, and Outlook has a completely different
look to it. I had the previous look to both XP and Office for a short bit,
however while I was installing drivers for my laptop, the res was lost.

Any help or suggestions anyone offer would be greatly appreciated. Below is
most of my system info if that would help:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BECKERLAPTOP
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model MM061
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1596 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1595 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A14, 4/2/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2705 (xpsp.050622-1524)"
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 357.36 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I wiped my hard drive clean preformed an reinstall of XP
Professional and Office 2003. I seem to have everything up and
running, functionally. However, during the reinstallation, the XP
Toolbar (and any Office programs) lost their sharpness. They all
are low res, and Outlook has a completely different look to it. I
had the previous look to both XP and Office for a short bit,
however while I was installing drivers for my laptop, the res was
lost.

Any help or suggestions anyone offer would be greatly appreciated.

Install all the drivers you have not installed at this time. Start with
your Video Card drivers from the Video Card Manufacturer's support/downloads
section of their web page. Open your device manager and check for other
devices that may not even have drivers installed yet.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I wiped my hard drive clean preformed an reinstall of XP
Professional and Office 2003. I seem to have everything up and
running, functionally. However, during the reinstallation, the XP
Toolbar (and any Office programs) lost their sharpness. They all
are low res, and Outlook has a completely different look to it. I
had the previous look to both XP and Office for a short bit,
however while I was installing drivers for my laptop, the res was
lost.

Any help or suggestions anyone offer would be greatly appreciated.

Oh - and just in case - what happens when you try to change resolution?

 

[becker163]

Install all the drivers you have not installed at this time. Start with
your Video Card drivers from the Video Card Manufacturer's support/downloads
section of their web page. Open your device manager and check for other
devices that may not even have drivers installed yet.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
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thank you for your suggestion. i thought i had done that, yet that might be the solution. I am continuing to look to see if i have everything d/l and installed correctly. do you think this would be the problem as the view inside of IE still has great resolution? maybe a better way to explain it would be as if XP and Office reverted back to a Win 95 look for some reason. Now I had to do a reinstall, and I had to call Microsoft to get a new code for XP as my provided key stated i was beyond my allowed amount of installs. Could this be a back way for MS to kind of "force" me to buy a new copy or upgrade? i only wonder this because it make no sense to me all other graphics seem to be great.

 

[becker163]

when i change the screen resolution in the display setting, it only causes
the display size to decrease with a large amount of black space surrounding it

 

[Ricky]

Also make sure your color quality is set to 32 bit.