Why are some images on my computer distorted while it isn't on other computers?

Anonymous
2012-07-25T09:41:02+00:00

Image Example:http://images.wikia.com/smurfs/images/d/dd/Movie_Clumsy.png

This is one of the images that appears "distorted" on my computer screen. If by "distorted", I mean the colors are somewhat unnatural and leaked... kinda like a painting of some sort...

All of my computer equipments are working properly, and my screen doesn't show any distorted images except for some images like that given example on top.

I have also updated my NVIDIA driver to the latest version and even reinstall it just to make sure!

I am not so sure about this but... I think only PNG formats are distorted... but that is still unconfirmed...

Anyway, please help! Thank You!

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2012-08-10T08:36:54+00:00

I have found out that my web provider is compressing images on the net for faster browsing.

And to view and download web images successfully, I have found an alternative.

I simply download a "User Agent Switcher" add-on for Firefox and switched to "Googlebot 2.1". After that all images that were wrong on the net went right.

I am only posting this in case some other people are also experiencing my problem.

Thank you to the following for their efforts:

Vinod N

James.Burgess

And thank you Dissed for putting the most efforts in posting!

Again, Thanks guys!

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-08-09T06:53:19+00:00

    Here is an example:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YoshiMarioParty9.png

    As you can see, this picture has a file size of 52KB. But whenever I download it, I noticed that the file size is only 28KB instead of 52KB...

    There is also an effect of this to the picture as the picture appears uglier than the original.

    Here is the picture:

    http://sdrv.ms/QgV8OF

    Please help! I need to know what's causing this...

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-08-09T06:12:10+00:00

    I am still wondering what is the logical explanation why is this happening...

    If anyone knows the cause of this weird phenomenon, please share it here

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-08-09T02:42:59+00:00

    Here is another example of a website that I'm experiencing image problems...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YoshiMarioParty9.png

    If I download it, it will have a file size of 28KB instead of 52KB...

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-08-03T15:34:10+00:00

    Very perplexing ?

    Possibly see if this free tool will give you png files on the dysfunctional machine,

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots

    At first I was thinking rolling back the graphics card driver would help but you already had uninstalled and reinstalled it.

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