On Jan 24, 2008, at 15:28, William Robb wrote: > Sometimes, my email looks like this: > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/screen1.jpg >
That actually looks more like a video driver glitch than anything else! The computer has a table in its head (more-or-less) of how to draw various letters, and when its told "print this letter" it does a lookup and spits out the appropriately-shaped character. If the location of that character (or the contents of memory where that character description is stored) is glitched, the computer will happily think it's spitting out text to the screen when in fact it is gibberish. I realize this is not exactly an accurate description of how this stuff works, but... a video driver update might help. Failing that, try disabling some of the video 'acceleration' features: 1. Right-click an empty space on the Windows Desktop and select "Properties" 2. Click the "Settings" tab 3. Click the "Advanced" button 4. Click the "troubleshoot" tab Move the slider on that page one notch to the left, away from "Full" and click OK. If this doesn't help (run it that way for a while and see if the problem disappears or not) you can crank it one more notch to the left. This, in theory, slows down your screen writing speeds but in actual practice the odds are that you will not even notice the difference. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
