Browsers: How to Question- Improving IE 6 Resolution tips wanted
How to Question- Improving IE 6 Resolution tips wanted
by tcantrelln - 7/2/06 5:03 AMNew Notebook, Dell Inspiron E1505, Ultrasharp 15.4 lcd, XP MCE, fully updated, three days old, Dore duo-2.0Ghz, Intel 945 graphics, etc. Very impressed with graphics in everything but for Internet Explorer. Google and every other website's basic Logo graphics look terrible, fuzzy 8 bit edges, crude color shadings, artifacting in web pictures (?) etc. Firefox looks and works great, anything office, or photo, or other program is fine, just IE is like a throwback to W3.1 or something. Native resolution on display is 1680x1050, have tried all the way down to 800x600, not much help. Any ideas, tips, tricks?
Re: resolution
by Kees Bakker
- 7/2/06 5:17 AM
In reply to: How to Question- Improving IE 6 Resolution tips wanted by tcantrelln
You shouldn't do anything to the resolution of the screen. LCD screens do especially bad when not in their optimal resolution, which is 1680 x 1050 for you.
The average website being designed for 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 it should show optimally in a smaller window, and - depending on its design - possibly with a lot of empty space to the left and right in full screen. And - of course - it should be sharp at all times. I don't know of any build in magnification setting in IE to 'blow up' the page (including pictures and logos) to your impressive full screen size, whcih seems to happen. They should stay the number of pixels they are, just occupying a smaller part of your screen size.
So, really, no ideas but calling Dell and let them solve this while you have warranty on the machine.
Kees
Dell online chat leans
by tcantrelln - 7/2/06 6:11 AM In reply to: Re: resolution by Kees Bakker
To "If office pix manager, photoshop, powerpoint, etc other graphics is ok, then the problem is Internet Explorer" I guess I need to go to a merchant with a bunch of these size screens, see how they behave for online sources?
Back to the beginning ...
by Kees Bakker - 7/2/06 3:03 PM
In reply to: How to Question- Improving IE 6 Resolution tips wanted by tcantrelln
with the restore CD. If that's no good either, make it a warranty issue. If that's OK, see where it went wrong during the 3 days you played with it.
Part of the OEM-deal between Dell and Microsoft is that Dell does the support on Microsoft products (like Windows and IE) you buy from them. So they should solve it, if it doesn't work right from the factory.
Kees
Dell online produced a fix on the second chat
by tcantrelln - 7/3/06 5:11 AM In reply to: How to Question- Improving IE 6 Resolution tips wanted by tcantrellnhad me download and install R98539 font trick, worked like a charm- I read the technical explanation and it seemed to make sense the super display I got has default DPI of 120, and most everything else is default at 95... presto. Color me happy.
Thanks for explaining.
by Kees Bakker - 7/3/06 12:19 PM
In reply to: Dell online produced a fix on the second chat by tcantrelln
But it's strange you need two chats with the helpdesk for this. Anyway, it's solved.
Kees
First chat guy was totally
by tcantrelln - 7/5/06 6:13 AM In reply to: Thanks for explaining. by Kees Bakker
Certain it was a graphics adapter driver problem, even though I pointed out the version was the same as the one he gave me the download link to. Second let me email a screen shot of what I was talking about (Difference in Firefox and IE) saw it and immediately sent the link to the dell package (Fontisizer?? haha) I figure this will come up more with the advances in super displays. This thing is so awesome at doing dvd's, etc I can't stand to look at my older Latitude D505 anymore. Too bad they can't tap the upgrade market with just a display swapout. Too integrated I guess
Great tip
by Oatmeal25 - 7/6/06 4:45 PM In reply to: First chat guy was totally by tcantrellnI came across this thread while searching for a solution to exactly the same problem on my new Dell Latitude D810. Just wanted to say thanks, it worked like a charm for me too.
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