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Mine is 17". It's 1440x800. Not sure which Wxxxx that is
I didn't change anything.
"Cyndi" <noonehome@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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Dell is sending out a new one next week. The only tweak he did was change
the one value in the registry and then change it back........have you
changed any of your setting from their "native" settings? And which wide
screen do you have? He has the 15.4, WSXGA.....for some reason, he said he
HAD to have the WSXGA, not the WXGA or WUGA
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Cyndi
"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> Honestly, I suspect his 'tweaking' left a mess, as my widescreen is
> outstanding in both text and graphics.
>
> Might want to consider restoring. I think it is F12 at boot. Save his
> data
> first!!!
>
> Tom
> "Cyndi" <noonehome@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:yKdve.3898$Bx6.2767@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> He tried the tweak to the registry. It cleared up the graphics but left
> the
> text bad. When he tried to fix the text, he decided to get rid of the
> tweak. He scaled down to 96 dpi and scaled down from 1600 to 1200 on his
> resolution and the graphics are really nice, but he says the text looks
> "softened", but it's still better. He's just pissed that he cannot use
> something that he paid more money for at it's native resolution without
> having to downscale.
> --
> Cyndi
> "User N" <usern@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> > I'm not real familiar with laptops let alone widescreen laptops, but
> > a couple of thoughts come to mind in terms of why IE display
> > quality might be less than what is produced by other apps.
> >
> > Is this IE only blurriness caused by motion, such as when he scrolls
> > the window? If so, in IE go Tools->Internet Options->Advanced
> > and find/uncheck the "use smooth scrolling" option and see if that
> > helps.
> >
> > Does this blurriness only apply to images/pictures, and does it only
> > apply to those which are loaded from remote [web]sites? If so, I'd
> > suspect a dialup accelerator is reducing image quality in order to
> > speed up downloads, and only IE is configured to use it. Adjust
> > the accelerator's image compression settings.
> >
> > Does IE display blurry pictures no matter where they are loaded
> > from? If so, what is the display DPI set to? Right click on desktop
> > and click on Properties, then the Settings tab, then the Advanced
> > button, and it is in the General tab. IIRC, when it is set to greater
> > than 96 and the UseHR registry value is set to 1, IE will scale things
> > up, thereby causing a reduction in image quality. UseHR, if it is set,
> > can be accessed via RegEdit (Start->Run, enter "RegEdit" and
> > click OK) and would be found under:
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
> >
> > Don't muck about with RegEdit unless you know what you are doing.
> > If that is the issue he could live with it, set UseHR to 0 to turn off
> > IE
> > scaling of text & images, or run at 96 DPI and experiment with display
> > resolution etc to see if he can get things the way he likes.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Cyndi" <noonehome@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> > news:sF4ve.1935$N22.225@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> > On a laptop, has anyone noticed if there are any differences with
> > graphics
> > on a widescreen vs a regular screen? Just wondering
> > because as of tonite, Dell is shipping out a new laptop to my son, who
> > just got his new laptop last wednesday. The graphics are
> > terrible only in IE, not in Netscape or desktop. They ran all sorts of
> > diagnostics, had him download the updated video driver (128
> > mb ATI Radeon 300?) and it's still blurry in IE. If this problem could
> > be
> > due to the widescreen, then he said he would break down
> > and get a regular size screen instead.
> > --
> > Cyndi
> >
>
>
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