Jaggies on IE Web Graphics

Question

We just got an Insprion E1705 with the 17' WUXGA monitor, with the integrated graphics, which my wife uses. I have just noticed that in IE web graphics usually have the jaggies. Text, real html text looks fine. I found an old thread referring to the Inspiron 8500 but it is an old thread. I'll quote from it: '3. Jagged Images in IE This problem is caused by a setting that Dell has very mistakenly elected to place in the Windows Registry. That setting is UseHR = 1 (a bad idea).* It causes a slight enlargement of images in Internet Explorer and the enlargement does not apparently share a common factor with the original image. (I.e. an image of 120 pixels is not stretched to 15, 18, or 24, but rather some number that shares no common factors with 120. The theory is that this would behave like the font DPI setting and maintain the proper balance between fonts, Images and the screen real estate. But again, this was a very bad choice. Although there are a few full color image formats that are scaleable (like 'Fractals' by Iterated Systems and EPS if the original source was scaleable), none of the standard browser formats are scaleable. For instance BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, PCX, PNG. You can correct the setting easily: Click Run. Type 'regedit' . Click Edit >> Find and search for 'UseHR'. Double click and change it from 1 to 0 (Hex or Decimal makes no difference). To see the difference, close and re-open your browser. Visit any page and note the beautiful smooth GIF images.' This post would seem to describe our problem, but since its so old, I wanted to check that the fix is still current. BTW, Starbus was the poster of this answer. johnny

jangell · Answer

I'll answer my own question. I went ahead and tried the fix and it worked. Dell has been setting this option wrong for years, you'd think they'd fix it.

Of course, if anyone thinks the fix is out-of-date or dangerous, please let me know.

johnny

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