The Internet Looks Smaller.

ok, so i just switched to vista last night and have been having some problems
with the resolution of some of the sites i frequent. every site looks like
everything has been pushed together from all sides. i tried decreasing the
resolution at the desktop but all that did was zoom in, offsetting the entire
page making it so i have to scroll left and right to view everything. i aslo
tried increasing the text size which didnt do mouch to make things look less
condensed.

right now, im at 1280x1024, the same as i had it on xp, and is the same on a
different computer. there are both zoomed in to 100% on ie7 just to let you
know. these following pictures were screencapped from my computer (with
vista) and the other computer (with xp):

http://thasquare.wordpress.com
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../blogshot1.jpg - vista
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...estBooM/ts.jpg - xp

http://twgnews.wordpress.com/
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...tBooM/twg1.jpg - vista
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...stBooM/twg.jpg - xp

as you can see from the picrtures, everything is about 1 inch smaller on
vista. im not sure what to do; is vista automatically condensing pictures or
somthing?

thanks to anyone who replies.

<resolution>; "ie7" <resolution, > wrote in
message news:A7D520AB-E171-4105-8AAB-...
> ok, so i just switched to vista last night and have been having some
problems
> with the resolution of some of the sites i frequent. every site looks like
> everything has been pushed together from all sides. i tried decreasing the
> resolution at the desktop but all that did was zoom in, offsetting the
entire
> page making it so i have to scroll left and right to view everything. i
aslo
> tried increasing the text size which didnt do mouch to make things look
less
> condensed.
>
> right now, im at 1280x1024, the same as i had it on xp, and is the same on
a
> different computer. there are both zoomed in to 100% on ie7 just to let
you
> know. these following pictures were screencapped from my computer (with
> vista) and the other computer (with xp):
>
> http://thasquare.wordpress.com
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../blogshot1.jpg - vista
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...estBooM/ts.jpg - xp
>
> http://twgnews.wordpress.com/
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...tBooM/twg1.jpg - vista
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...stBooM/twg.jpg - xp
>
> as you can see from the picrtures, everything is about 1 inch smaller on
> vista. im not sure what to do; is vista automatically condensing pictures
or
> somthing?
>
> thanks to anyone who replies.

On you Vista machine...how do you have your colors set.

try for true color or high color if it is not set that way

> On you Vista machine...how do you have your colors set.
>
> try for true color or high color if it is not set that way
_________

i see medium (16 bit) and highest (32 bit) on the display settings. it is
set to highest.

If IE7 is the only place you are having differences, you could check/compare
the settings you have on both. Otherwise, it could be a video card driver
if other screens have differences also.


"resolution, ie7" <resolution, > wrote in
message news:A7D520AB-E171-4105-8AAB-...
> ok, so i just switched to vista last night and have been having some
> problems
> with the resolution of some of the sites i frequent. every site looks like
> everything has been pushed together from all sides. i tried decreasing the
> resolution at the desktop but all that did was zoom in, offsetting the
> entire
> page making it so i have to scroll left and right to view everything. i
> aslo
> tried increasing the text size which didnt do mouch to make things look
> less
> condensed.
>
> right now, im at 1280x1024, the same as i had it on xp, and is the same on
> a
> different computer. there are both zoomed in to 100% on ie7 just to let
> you
> know. these following pictures were screencapped from my computer (with
> vista) and the other computer (with xp):
>
> http://thasquare.wordpress.com
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../blogshot1.jpg - vista
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...estBooM/ts.jpg - xp
>
> http://twgnews.wordpress.com/
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...tBooM/twg1.jpg - vista
> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...stBooM/twg.jpg - xp
>
> as you can see from the picrtures, everything is about 1 inch smaller on
> vista. im not sure what to do; is vista automatically condensing pictures
> or
> somthing?
>
> thanks to anyone who replies.

You appear to have different video resolutions set for the two operating
systems. In each of them, right-click on a blank area of the desktop, hit
"Personalize" or "Properties", and dig down to find the resoution.

With Internet explorer this is a common <<problem>
Try to download and install Mozilla Firefo
With mozilla you can easily increase and decrease any website wit
nothing to worried
Just press and hold Ctrl and use + or - button
Please inform me about any result :

--
panais

Incidentally, if it is just IE you would be better off posting on the
internet explorer group.


"John Barnes" <> wrote in message
news:...
> If IE7 is the only place you are having differences, you could
> check/compare the settings you have on both. Otherwise, it could be a
> video card driver if other screens have differences also.
>
>
> "resolution, ie7" <resolution, > wrote in
> message news:A7D520AB-E171-4105-8AAB-...
>> ok, so i just switched to vista last night and have been having some
>> problems
>> with the resolution of some of the sites i frequent. every site looks
>> like
>> everything has been pushed together from all sides. i tried decreasing
>> the
>> resolution at the desktop but all that did was zoom in, offsetting the
>> entire
>> page making it so i have to scroll left and right to view everything. i
>> aslo
>> tried increasing the text size which didnt do mouch to make things look
>> less
>> condensed.
>>
>> right now, im at 1280x1024, the same as i had it on xp, and is the same
>> on a
>> different computer. there are both zoomed in to 100% on ie7 just to let
>> you
>> know. these following pictures were screencapped from my computer (with
>> vista) and the other computer (with xp):
>>
>> http://thasquare.wordpress.com
>> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5.../blogshot1.jpg - vista
>> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...estBooM/ts.jpg - xp
>>
>> http://twgnews.wordpress.com/
>> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...tBooM/twg1.jpg - vista
>> http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...stBooM/twg.jpg - xp
>>
>> as you can see from the picrtures, everything is about 1 inch smaller on
>> vista. im not sure what to do; is vista automatically condensing pictures
>> or
>> somthing?
>>
>> thanks to anyone who replies.
>

@ John Barnes - i just updated my video card drivers today, still the same
look.
@ Michael Covington - ive already tried to increase/decrease my resolution;
it zooms in on everything, but makes it so i have to scroll left and right to
view everything, somthing that i didnt need to do in xp
@ Barnes & Panais - i installed firefox just now and its the same thing.
everything is still squished together. i tried the cntrl & +/- but that just
increases the text size.

"resolution, ie7" <> wrote in message
news:E751BE6F-4414-45F4-927F-...
>@ John Barnes - i just updated my video card drivers today, still the same
> look.
> @ Michael Covington - ive already tried to increase/decrease my
> resolution;
> it zooms in on everything, but makes it so i have to scroll left and right
> to
> view everything, somthing that i didnt need to do in xp

What are the actual resolution numbers? Look for a *small* difference
between the two, and set Vista to be like XP.

the resolution on both xp and vista are 1280x1024. in order to get vista to
become the same size as xp, i have to decrease the res a few notches (or zoom
into the page 10-20%). the thing is, i didnt need to do this before and it
makes some things look bad. it also requires me to scroll left and right to
see the entire webpage, again, somthing i didnt need to do before.