--- In Strawberry-Ridge-Computer-Club@yahoogroups.com, "Christine Ritter"
<mamaritz@...> wrote:

Pam: Found this info and hoped it might help you since you are also using AOL:
Do the pictures and graphics on web pages look fuzzy, blurred, or blocky to you?
Have you noticed that those same graphics look fine on a computer that does NOT
use AOL?

Most likely your answer is yes, and this is why: When you install AOL, it
enables something called "Image Compression" in order to conserve AOL's
bandwidth and make your AOL connection seem faster than it is. What this means
for you as that you will see DEGRADED, BLURRY, and/or BLOCKY images on some web
pages.
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Thx Chris for the info. Since I no longer use AOL's browser, the fix described
didn't work for me but it led me to think of other possibilities. The Copper.net
web accelerator I use w/my dial-up compresses graphics as well. Still, removing
that didn't help either. Then I decided to run some simple system maintenance
(defrag & disc cleanup)& guess what... whah-la, the graphics are now much
better! (Probably doesn't help much that my 13 yr old grandson likes to jump on
Grandma's PC & try to do things w/my dial-up that shouldn't be attempted ;-)
Who knows. Thx again pal. PB