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1. When someone ICQ's me, I get their posts either 2 or 4 times. This started off just being if they were in invisible mode, but now it's everyone. Not really a biggie, but it's irritating
2. I'm using Firefox, but when I open something up in IE, it looks VERY pixalated and I can't figure out where to change the settings.
3. I trying to download some Purecash (gotta love creative spam....) banners and the promo screen doesn't load the frame. It doesn't do it in either Foxfire OR IE, but it's fine on my other computer.
I'm sure these are all VERY easy to fix, but I'm stumped and my brain hurts from driving to Atlanta and back already today.
Originally posted by Peaches@Jul 27 2004, 03:26 PM 2. I'm using Firefox, but when I open something up in IE, it looks VERY pixalated and I can't figure out where to change the settings.
OOH! OOH! I know this one! I know this one!
Go to your display properties, choose settings, and then advanced. Change your DPI setting in the "general" tab to 96 dots per inch instead of 120. These new fangled laptops set too many pixels per inch. I know that because I had to figure out the same problem last week.
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I've been getting some of the problems your getting such as the small icons and REALLY small web pages, but after changing down a resolution everything was peachy (pun intended )
You know, I've been having the same issues... I just got a Dell 8600 last week and I'm having a tough time figuring out all the settings. With the laptop monitor it insists that you set your resolution to 1600 by 1200. I can't see anything with that... I set my monitor to 1024 by 768, and at home my desktop icons are HUGE. At the office they look fine. It's a pain in the ass, but I am liking XP over Windows 2000. And the new laptop is MUCH better than the old one.
Originally posted by Mike AI@Jul 28 2004, 12:00 AM Call Dell support.
They will transfer you to India - where their slogan is "We put the DOT in DOT com!"
OR
You could call the Belkin Wireless Support (also in India) probelm solve for 1 hour and 50 minutes, just to be told our head in technical will call you back within 2 hours... it's been 17 days and I'm still waiting <_<
Originally posted by VooMan@Jul 28 2004, 12:05 AM You know, I've been having the same issues... I just got a Dell 8600 last week and I'm having a tough time figuring out all the settings. With the laptop monitor it insists that you set your resolution to 1600 by 1200. I can't see anything with that... I set my monitor to 1024 by 768, and at home my desktop icons are HUGE. At the office they look fine. It's a pain in the ass, but I am liking XP over Windows 2000. And the new laptop is MUCH better than the old one.
Originally posted by VooMan@Jul 27 2004, 07:05 PM You know, I've been having the same issues... I just got a Dell 8600 last week and I'm having a tough time figuring out all the settings. With the laptop monitor it insists that you set your resolution to 1600 by 1200. I can't see anything with that... I set my monitor to 1024 by 768, and at home my desktop icons are HUGE. At the office they look fine. It's a pain in the ass, but I am liking XP over Windows 2000. And the new laptop is MUCH better than the old one.
That's the exact one I got Which screen did you get? I got the middle one (not the cheap, not the expensive). Is this board TINY for you?
I like the speed more than my old one, but I wish I could SEE things on it!
I wanted to move up to 1280 by 1024, but it's just too damn small to read. I must be getting old. hahaha I set my screen to 1024 by 768 and everything is fine. Just a few little differences between XP and 2000 that I'll have to learn. I am VERY happy with this laptop overall...
Originally posted by VooMan@Jul 27 2004, 07:16 PM I dunno, Bill pretty much picked it out for me.
I wanted to move up to 1280 by 1024, but it's just too damn small to read. I must be getting old. hahaha I set my screen to 1024 by 768 and everything is fine. Just a few little differences between XP and 2000 that I'll have to learn. I am VERY happy with this laptop overall...
Mine is at 1680X1050 and it gets really pissy and tells me it's not going to look good when I try to change it And it's right! :P
I know what you mean, Peaches. On the laptop screen it tells you that, and it's absolutely right. It looks like hell if you don't have it at 1600. I use a port replicator at home and at the office, so I'm on a regular monitor, keyboard, and mouse. With that setup, if you change it to 1024 it looks fine. The laptop monitor is kind of like a wide screen TV though, and if you change the settings it looks all messed up.
Originally posted by VooMan@Jul 27 2004, 07:29 PM I know what you mean, Peaches. On the laptop screen it tells you that, and it's absolutely right. It looks like hell if you don't have it at 1600. I use a port replicator at home and at the office, so I'm on a regular monitor, keyboard, and mouse. With that setup, if you change it to 1024 it looks fine. The laptop monitor is kind of like a wide screen TV though, and if you change the settings it looks all messed up.
edit: for grammar.
This is really the worst place for me - and an Air Force message board - the rest of the websites I usually frequent are fine with Foxfire (not with IE, read first message, hehe) and have normal fonts for some reason...........I think Serge and Michael (and the AF) are just trying to make me feel older and blinder <_<
But I feel better knowing I picked the same laptop as Bill would have picked for a "non-Bill type" person.
Redlion once put a trojan on Prophet8's and another guys laptops.
It was harmless though , all it did was turn there wallpaper into "hockey boy" , a pic of a very gay looking naked man holding a hockey stick, every now and again.
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jul 28 2004, 01:12 AM Well you are a helpful bastard today , trev!!!!
;-))
peaches,
You think you have a problem?
Redlion once put a trojan on Prophet8's and another guys laptops.
It was harmless though , all it did was turn there wallpaper into "hockey boy" , a pic of a very gay looking naked man holding a hockey stick, every now and again.
;-)))
STALKER!!!!
:P
I'm just tryin to get around XP myself... after putting everything back to "Windows Classic" I feel a little more at home in my OS
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jul 27 2004, 08:12 PM Well you are a helpful bastard today , trev!!!!
;-))
peaches,
You think you have a problem?
Redlion once put a trojan on Prophet8's and another guys laptops.
It was harmless though , all it did was turn there wallpaper into "hockey boy" , a pic of a very gay looking naked man holding a hockey stick, every now and again.
;-)))
Didn't someone put a sticker or license plate on Prophet's car saying he was gay?
Originally posted by Peaches@Jul 27 2004, 06:43 PM
This is really the worst place for me - and an Air Force message board - the rest of the websites I usually frequent are fine with Foxfire (not with IE, read first message, hehe) and have normal fonts for some reason...........I think Serge and Michael (and the AF) are just trying to make me feel older and blinder <_<
But I feel better knowing I picked the same laptop as Bill would have picked for a "non-Bill type" person.
Mozilla Firefox is an excellent browser, but there is a big difference between Mozilla and Internet Explorer. Our designer uses Firefox, and I am always telling him to check his work in IE. Firefox does a much better job of rendering CSS properly, but IE is what most everyone still uses... IE is much more forgiving than Firefox in my experience. It does a better job with text.
I like Firefox though. Love the tabbed browsing and the plugins.
Why when surfing does IE shut down its browser when it has an error, plus all browser pages opened by the bad bad browser page in the first place... can I stop this?
Only been on XP 16 days and hate (TGP's are good in conparision :P ) is not strong enough of a word... :grrr:
Originally posted by Trev@Jul 27 2004, 04:30 PM OK OK!!
Heres one for the XP Gurus:
Why when surfing does IE shut down its browser when it has an error, plus all browser pages opened by the bad bad browser page in the first place... can I stop this?
Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Jul 27 2004, 09:34 PM Try dinking with your font settings.
Right click on desktop, hit properties, select "Appearance" tab. You should see a font setting at the bottom, go for large or extra large.
If that doesn't bring Firefox up in size with it, you can force it to have a minimum font size. Bring up firefox, hit tools->options->general. Click "font and colors". Make sure the dpi matches the desktop, and if you're still small, select a minimum font size that is of a size your eyes like.
Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Jul 27 2004, 08:34 PM
Try dinking with your font settings.
Right click on desktop, hit properties, select "Appearance" tab. You should see a font setting at the bottom, go for large or extra large.
If that doesn't bring Firefox up in size with it, you can force it to have a minimum font size. Bring up firefox, hit tools->options->general. Click "font and colors". Make sure the dpi matches the desktop, and if you're still small, select a minimum font size that is of a size your eyes like.
Hey man, step off... I'm the technical genius around here.
I just got a new laptop with more than a 6 gig hard drive, and and and I got XP, and and I upgraded to Quicken 2004, and and and I even did an online billpay yesterday. So there!
Originally posted by Peaches@Jul 27 2004, 12:26 PM 1. When someone ICQ's me, I get their posts either 2 or 4 times. This started off just being if they were in invisible mode, but now it's everyone. Not really a biggie, but it's irritating
I used to have this issue on my PC. The only fixed that worked was to uninstall it, and see if you can reinstall a different version.
For example, if you have the LITE version, try to get the full one, or vice versa.
I now use a Mac. I do not have these problems anymore.
Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Jul 27 2004, 10:00 PM No problem, but we get to select your wallpaper...and dont think you'll be able to reset it easily....I'll wait at least a month before telling you how to undo it.
You always have a standing invitation to dinner...we eat at least once every day usually sometime between 6PM and 7:30AM.
I have my boy as my wallpaper now - mess with that and you die h34r:
I don't do well with "standing invitations" - I need real ones to feel loved - and at least 24 hours notice
I agree on the Trillian thing HP, it solved a lot of problems for me.
There are settings to change your icons to large size in there too Peaches, I'm just too beat to give you the paths since Id have to look for it to tell you.
I love XP, I haven't rebooted in 33 days at this point and I don't have a memory bleed or any other problem with it. Lots and lots of standby time on it too
Originally posted by *KK*@Jul 27 2004, 09:42 PM I agree on the Trillian thing HP, it solved a lot of problems for me.
There are settings to change your icons to large size in there too Peaches, I'm just too beat to give you the paths since Id have to look for it to tell you.
I love XP, I haven't rebooted in 33 days at this point and I don't have a memory bleed or any other problem with it. Lots and lots of standby time on it too
Ah hell, I forgot she wanted to change icon sizes too.
That one is on same menus just hidden one layer deeper.
1) Right click on desktop, hit properties
2) Select "Appearance" then click the "advanced" button
Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Jul 27 2004, 11:11 PM Ah hell, I forgot she wanted to change icon sizes too.
I DON'T!!! They just got too small (along with my email, XP tool bar, etc) when I did what Voo suggested
Read the first post again - those are my problems. I merely mentioned the small text here and on the Air Force site because it was appropriate to what was being discussed about the resolution of the computer.
AGAIN, I don't want to change my icons. I want IE to stop being pixalated, and if I can see this site and the AF site better in the process, it's a bonus.
Setting your DPI to 96 instead of 120 will stop image from being pixellated in IE. Apparently it makes the text too small. It did the trick for me using a monitor, but there is more to it with the laptop I guess...
Lower the DPI, change the fonts, small icons, big icons. You just can't please these women no matter how hard you try.
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They just got too small (along with my email, XP tool bar, etc) when I did what Voo suggested 
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