Tuesday, 2024-04-27

today's microsoft rant

Part of my responsibilities is taking care of new computer installs at work. We have recently purchased several top-notch Dell Inspiron 8100s. These have 15" widescreen displays.

To prevent ridiculously small font sizes, Dell ships with the DPI settings set to 120. This means that fonts look bigger, but also that Internet Explorer also scales the images on websites. These appear blurry and jagged.

Not surprisingly, this is a top issue at Dell's support forums. The "solution" is a registry hack: change the value of the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\UseHR from 1 to 0.

Additionally, when I tried to read an article on MSDN about this, IE froze when trying to load the page.

I will recommend Mozilla for our users in the future.

linklove

Well, this should help my PageRank. Thanks, Jim!