problems with my 8600

I have a problem when i surf on the web such sites as notebookreview.com, or www.videohelp.com, it lags a lot or what i can say is that the page is very choppy. (one of my friends said it is some kinda a ghost thing..wtv that is called). So what i did is that i call tech support from dell and they said it is perfectly normal. To me, it doesn't seem to be normal at all cause i have 1.7 ghz, with 1024 ram, 64 ge force fx videocard..etc. Everything seems to be high compare to my other dimension 8100 which is configure it at 1.3 ghz, 640 ram, 32 mb videocard. When i use my dimension, sites that i mention above doesn't lag or chop as it does on my inspiron. Does anyone what happenning or is there a fix?

Thanks
Ken

Thanks
Ken

 

Hi soul_fire99,

The problem is with the autoresizing feature in IE6. Web pages are not normally designed to be used with the very high resolution screens on the 8600 (SWXGA and UXGA), and so the result is that the text and pictures appear very small. To compensate for this, Microsoft added an autoresizing feature which scales up the web pages so that they don't look tiny. Downside is the graphics then look blocky, and the upload is slow.

Check out the solution as I posted it here:

http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1323

You have to tweak the regedit settings in IE6 to turn the autoresizing feature off. As for the tiny internet text that results, you can compensate (for all text except on some web pages) by setting the IE6 font size to large.

Good luck!