WUXGA Issues Resolved, Some Anyway!

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" <enter>.
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.

Thanks to StarBus for from the Dell Community Form for the above info.


I made the change and and everything is great. Be very careful when making any registry changes. Here's how to make the change

1) Go to the Start Menu
2) Select Run and type regedit
3) Navigate to the following location

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Main

4) Double click the entry: UseHR in the right window and change the entry from 1 to 0. Close Regedit and graphics will display properly in Internet Explorer

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=92122

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