blurry pictures

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Emmett

Ever since I've had my new laptop, Internet Explorer's pictures have
been fuzzy. I posted an example --> http://www.duke.edu/~efn/pic.jpg .
I looked through the settings, grew impatient, and downloaded Firefox.
But still, how should I fix this problem?
-Emmett
 
Hi Emmett :-)
Ever since I've had my new laptop, Internet Explorer's pictures have
been fuzzy. I posted an example --> http://www.duke.edu/~efn/pic.jpg .
I looked through the settings, grew impatient, and downloaded Firefox.
But still, how should I fix this problem?
-Emmett
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You do not mention the version of Windows you have, or version of IE, thus,
I can only make a guess. You might try the following and see if it helps.

I can't see JPG's or GIFS any more - red x - images missing - fuzzy
images/distorted images
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#jpg_gif

Also, try clearing out your TIF files:

Clearing the TIF Cache -

Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

The temporary I.E. files folder is a cache for web pages that you have
visited. I don't know why Microsoft sets the default so high, but I have
seen 2gb set for storage. This and other setting can be changed to decreace
the size of the storage area, and supposedly delete the I.E. temp file when
you close the browser.

The Cache
http://sweb.uky.edu/~wvang00/sayre/cache.htm

Temporary Internet Files / Cache
http://www.desilva.biz/misc/iecache.html?s=d8d31b07730bc3e8353b5a2246b41f93

Alex Nichol
Temporary means Temporary. Ones in the regular TEMP environmental
variable folders can be cleaned out as soon as the program that uses
them exits. It is advisable not to do this automatically at the
'autoexec' level, because some software installs leave some files
there for use when the system reboots. But I have a 'clean it up'
batch file that I run in the registry HKLM Run key

Ones in Temp Files are only needed should you be likely to go back to
the page. In Internet Options - Settings button I suggest cutting the
space allowed down - say 50 MB is plenty - and leave it to its own
devices.

also.............

TIF & Cookies Information -

Alex Nichol
TIF and Cookies are in quite separate physical folders.

But in XP if you open TIF either direct in Explorer or via the TIF
Settings button - 'view files' in Internet Options, the contents of
Cookies is included. They are not deleted though if you use the
'Delete files' in Internet Options - there is a separate Delete
Cookies button.

(Aside - the above Delete Files and Delete Cookies buttons are also in
the IE6 and IE SP1 on the Tools | Internet Options | General tab)

Mike Maltby
For those using Outlook Express it is however essential that the
Temporary Internet Files, including "All offline content" be
periodically emptied as OE dumps two files in TIF for each message displayed
regardless of whether it is html or plain text. For those working
newsgroups the number of these files can rapidly build up. This behaviour
started with IE5.5 and remains in the latest RC2 version of IE6.

Alex Nichol
I don't usually use outlook express. But have just experimented,
emptying TIF and then using OE (XP SP2 RC2) to get in the daily SPAM on my
spam trap address, look at one or two in plain text and connect to the BING
newsgroups and look at a few messages there (both preview and launch into
their own windows), and I could not find any indication of any new file when
I went back to look in TIF after
closing OE

Wesley Vogel
When you empty the Temporary Internet Files folder in Internet
Explorer, files that start with the word "Cookie" may remain in the
folder.

These files are pointers to the actual cookies that are located in
the Windows\Cookies folder. To retain the association between these
pointers and the actual cookie files, they are not deleted when you
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder. However, if you manually
delete a cookie file from the Temporary Internet Files folder, both
the pointer to the Cookies folder and the cookie file located in the
Cookies folder are deleted.

Sandi Hardmeier
This may help explain...
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers3.htm#Cache

Wesley Vogel
Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm
clear out temporary files and delete cookies.
http://www.pchell.com/support/privacy.shtml
Computer Health
http://www.aumha.org/a/health.php#tip6

Alex Nichol
Temporary means Temporary. Ones in the regular TEMP environmental variable
folders can be cleaned out as soon as the program that uses them exits. It
is advisable not to do this automatically at the 'autoexec' level, because
some software installs leave some files there for use when the system
reboots. But I have a 'clean it up' batch file that I run in the registry
HKLM Run key.

Ones in Temp Files are only needed should you be likely to go back to
the page. In Internet Options - Settings button I suggest cutting the
space allowed down - say 50 MB is plenty - and leave it to its own
devices.

Deleting Cookies ................

I get an error saying my browser is not set to accept cookies, but it is!
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#cookies

Recreating the cache, history and cookie folders when corrupted
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree

See http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#cookies and
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm#deltree


If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.


Hope this helps

Jan :)
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Hi Emmett :-)

Here is a bit more information on this issue:

Pictures Do Not Show
http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/redx.htm

or............................

Right click on the graphic you see and a pop up menu should appear. Select
"Show Picture" option.

Then, go to Internet Options>Advanced Tab
Show Pictures - check option if
unchecked to display pictures all the time.

or

Scroll down to this section at this link.:
I can't see JPG's or GIFS any more - red x - images missing - fuzzy
images/distorted images
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm

also try theseHow to Restore .GIF & .JPEG Preview
http://aumha.org/win4/a/jpggif.htm
I can't see JPG's or GIFS any more - red x - images missing - fuzzy
images/distorted images
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#jpg_gif

or.........

Web Page Displays an Image As a Red X or Not at All (Q283807)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807

http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/ieimage.htm

For Dell -

See:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=79881

Or... from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp

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.

Run REGEDIT to 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
UseHR= dword:00000001
- - -
If the solution from Dell support works for you, don't bother with the
registry fix from msdn.


It is difficult for us to determine the right information to provide for
your problem with out more details, such as the version of Windows you are
using, if you have SP2, and the exact wording of any error messages you may
be getting. This will help us determine the proper information to provide
you to make the necessary corrections to resolve your problem. Please post
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Thank you :-)

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Well, first I'd ignore the post from the person who said they see no
problem...the Google title graphic is clearly aliased pretty badly, and
since the rest of the screen shot looks sharp, the problem isn't due to
anything like you resizing the screen cap or something similar.

That being said, I don't know what the problem really is...if FireFox
displays graphics without this aliasing, that would seem to eliminate
some video driver/setting problem, and point directly to something in
IE. But you might still want to check your video driver settings and
make sure that they're set to the right resolution for your laptop
(laptop LCDs, unlike CRTs, have a "native resolution" that they display
best at, because they have a fixed number of pixels. Any other
resolution forces them to do an on-the-fly stretch or compress of the
display image.) Also make sure that the drivers are set for at least
16-bit color or highter, not 256 color.

I know under the Advanced settings in IE, there's a couple of things
about Resizing Images, and Smart Dithering, something like that...but I
don't know that having those on would cause this problem. I guess you
could check those things as well.
 
I've noticed this on my home pc as well. I run Win98se/IE6SP1 w/ a local
dialup provider.
It seems to have only started in the past week. It only effects jpgs. Gifs
are as crisp and clear as always, it's only jpgs. I have not changed any
vid/display settings or IE settings.
I've read in here that it could come from the ISP using download-quickening
compression, but other than that, I'm at a loss for an explanation/fix; as I
know I haven't changed anything on my end and it wasn't from upgrading the
SP1 to IE6.
Freaky.
 
Justin said:
I've noticed this on my home pc as well. I run Win98se/IE6SP1 w/ a local
dialup provider.
It seems to have only started in the past week. It only effects jpgs. Gifs
are as crisp and clear as always, it's only jpgs. I have not changed any
vid/display settings or IE settings.
I've read in here that it could come from the ISP using download-quickening
compression, but other than that, I'm at a loss for an explanation/fix; as I
know I haven't changed anything on my end and it wasn't from upgrading the
SP1 to IE6.
Freaky.
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It could quite well be that your ISP is stripping colors out of jpegs to
make the file size smaller and preserve bandwidth like AOL used to and maybe
still does. The file size of a gif is rarely anywhere near that of a jpeg so
reducing file sizes of jpegs and bitmap files is possible. Depending on what
they use to reduce the jpeg files can determine the quality of the results.,
if that's what's going on. Why don't you list a URL to a pic that looks
funny to you so some of us can take a look at it?


Using IE 5.5 the pic is not fuzzy or distorted in any way, it's sharp and
clear.
 
It was my ISP after all. I emailed their techsup last nite before I posted
here, and this morn they replied saying "a compression tool was too tight".
Now going back to the same pages, seeing the same pics there's a world of
difference.(much like getting your eye prescription updated :P).

I was starting to freak out b/c I know I didn't fiddle w/ anything. It's
relieving to nkow it was someone else's fault in this case.:P
 
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