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Latitude D610 DPI Issues
I just received my Latitude D610 yesterday. It works great. I am having one problem, though. I notice that, while in the 120 DPI mode, some windows icons and many IE icons/pictures/ect. appear blurry/jagged/pixelated. When I go into the normal 96 DPI mode, things look fine. The only problem is that I have a SXGA screen, which has a larger screen resolution, so things become very small. I like the size that is produced by the 120 DPI mode. Is there a way to fix this problem and make it look better. Here are some basic specs of my system:
Latitude D610
Windows XP Pro, SP2
Radeon X300
14.1 inch SXGA+ screen
Thanks for any help. I have searched around but have yet to find any exact solutions to this problem.
BlueSideUp
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Posted June 15th, 2005 02:00
The reason you get the blocky icons/start button is that WinXP doesnt "officially" support the 120dpi on the higher res LCDs yet. I was hoping it would have been added with Service Pack 2 but supposedly this is something that will be added to the next version of Windows. I can duplicate the same issue you have and it seems going back to 96dpi is the only way to make it look decent.- The icons in the tray can be made larger using Display Properties...Advanced, then clicking on and increasing the size of the Title Bars. I increased mine to 18 and the icons are a lot more readable.
Did doing the registry fix to go to 120 dpi have any other effect on the screen? Some have said it reduces the size so it no longer fits the screen or the aspect ratio looks weird. Comments? - I much prefer Firefox and only use IE for operations that require it
(Microsoft Up-Date or Active-X interchanges), so I have no need to even try this:
Dell Internet Explorer Scaling Utility [click this link]
"Release Date: 04/22/2005
Description: This utility allows user to select Large or Normal sizes for Fonts and Icons in Internet Explorer.
This is applicable when the DPI is greater than 96 and IE version is 6.0 or more."
Someone else said that it "did nothing for text size, but fixed the icons" so tell us if it helps you.
Embedded Microsoft ActiveX controls, binary behaviors, and other elements that use
Microsoft Windows Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) calls scale poorly or not at all [click this link] It had no other affects on the screen, at least from what I can tell. The only thing it did was help clear up all of the images in IE. If you were running at a lower resolution other than the maximum (which, in LCD's, is also the optimum, I believe), I would imagine that problems could happen. My screen only looks right (as far as the aspect goes) when it is in the greatest resolution. But, no, the registry fix did nothing that you stated.
I am going to install the Dell Fix right now and I will let you know how it works out.
JmanGT
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Posted June 15th, 2005 01:00