On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 23:20:37 +0000, Tony Morgan <Tony@rhylonline.com>
wrote:

>In message <1166167860.657917.143120@16g2000cwy.googlegroups. com>, media
><timisme******.com> writes
>>I'm having this trouble on a brand new Dell. 2 hours with tech support
>>did not result in a solution.
>>Any graphics on the internet and the desktop icons are jagged and not
>>smooth. I am running the standard 1900 resolution and have changed it
>>but it is still jagged. Even icons down by the systray are jagged. I
>>tried adjusting the DPI and font smoothing as well. This is an
>>expensive laptop, and this should not be happening...3D is fine, it's
>>the jpg's and bmp's on the net and the desktop that are jagged, looking
>>like an 8 bit video card. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>Don't the XPS models have 24-hour call-out? My M1710 came with it as
>standard.
>
>I can't offer any constructive help except to say that my display is
>faultless. Mine has the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX video with 512MB.

Tony, try changing this registry setting:
HKeyCurrentUser\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\UseHR

to UseHR = 0, and then rebooting your system.

Let me know if that helps your problem.

--William Leara