Help needed with Vista please.

[Teegan]

Well hi folks not sure if this is posted in the right place so i am sorry if its not.

I just bought a new laptop with windows vista installed on it,i have never seen vista before......

My problem is when browsing the net all images i see are of alow quality,when i hover my cursor over any image it comes up with a a message saying hold shift +r to improve the quality of the image its a pain in the neck when viewing top images on this site.

So does anyone out there know how i turn this off so it loads full quality images all the time ?

Thanks in advance,

K

[Pete]

Sounds like it could be an add-on program that came with your new laptop.

Maybe something like http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/software/t-free-jpeg-enhancer-download-dpcuhkls.html

Take a look in your add/remove programs list and see what junk has been pre-installed.

[PeteJaffa]

Are you using Vodaphone Mobile Connect or something similar?

[DozerLYP]

You should try FireFox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/).

[cosworth]

Agreed, this is a browser setting. Not a vista issue. I used to be a fan of IE7 but I find I like firefox for the plugins.

[PeteJaffa]

It's not necessarily a browser issue. UMTS connections have been known to compress images. There's a setting in the Vodafone/Orange etc connection manager to change the settings.

[kevin_c]

I get this with my laptop when using the Vodafone broadband data card - It may be a setting in the Vodafone software I guess, but I reckon it will be going through a proxy server and being done at that level.

[Wsman2]

Try out a fairly new browser called Flock (http://www.flock.com). It's powered by Mozilla, same engine for Firefox.

[::John::]

Try out a fairly new browser called Flock (http://www.flock.com). It's powered by Mozilla, same engine for Firefox.


so...


If IE can't display it and FF can't render it, Flock it?

:lol:

[Teegan]

Yes use t mobile to connect to the net,i have no access to a landline

[PeteJaffa]

Yes use t mobile to connect to the net,i have no access to a landline

There will be a quality setting in the T-Mobile settings.

Something like Settings -> Optimisation

[Teegan]

well i flocked it and that didnt work,i have looked in t mobiles settings with no joy either,so will ring t mobile tomorrow to see what they say.........

[kevin_c]

I'm pretty sure all web pages go through a proxy server and the compression of the images will be done at that point.

[Teegan]

Success !!

I downloaded a graphics accelerator from T Mobile,changed the settings and WOW everything looks so much better every time,awesome.

Thanks for all your help folks.

[kevin_c]

Success !!

I downloaded a graphics accelerator from T Mobile,changed the settings and WOW everything looks so much better every time,awesome.

Thanks for all your help folks.

Of course your hi-res image downloads are now eating into your bandwidth limit more now...;)

[Teegan]

Of course your hi-res image downloads are now eating into your bandwidth limit more now...;)


thoughtfully t mobile have a "fair useage" policy.....dont know how fair they are tho lol :)