Blocky shutdown buttons- fixable?

[Henrythewound]

Hey there, I have an Acer laptop w/ Windows XP. The buttons I see when I go to log off/ shut down are blocky

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Jaundice/badbutons.JPG]badbutons.JPG[/url]

They are like this in the start menu as well as in the box that pops up when you select one of the options. Some of the icons in the task bar (by the clock) are also grainy. I have a ATI mobility Radeon 9700 as the graphics card, Im not sure if the card is the issue.

I had assumed this was normal until I installed XP on my desktop machine at home and the buttons are very crisp. Any ideas what setting I have screwed up here?

Thx,
Joe

 

[zimu]

whats your color depth? 24 bit? 32 bit? what about resolution?

 

[Henrythewound]

32 bit colors, 1280 x 800

I have a feeling my issue is related to the one discussed on the following site (which I just found)
http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2004/03/23/94391.aspx
There, people discuss changing the DPI setting to 120.

My comp is set at 120 by default, apparently the icons scale and become distorted, I will try at 96 DPI to see if that is the reason.

Joe

 

[Henrythewound]

Yeah, its the DPI setting. The buttons look fine at 96 dpi, but everything in the task bar is incredibly small. I will just put up with or replace the shutdown/restart buttons. Thx fo rthe help

Joe