IE will not display web sites properly

  1. #1
    skrsl5 is offline Newbie

    IE will not display web sites properly

    HI,
    I have tried every conceivable solution to this problem. When I start up IE and go to my home page the fonts are very large and over lap each other and the back ground is a generic white. For instance my home page is MSN .com and it is usually a blue back ground with a menu along the left side

    Running a dell. latitude D600 win XP

    I have treid the following- While in IE. Went to View/text size choose smallest available changed fonts size etc

    Tried every different decoding optiond available etc.

    While in XP only I have tried to change all resolution and font size setting.

    Can you help!


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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    Did IE every work ok on this computer?

    There are known issues with some Dell models & IE such as:

    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
    Although it is not an awnser to your question you might also want to consider using Firefox:

    Firefox 1.0.1 for Windows

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