I thought this has been asked, but I can’t find it.
In IE7, I’ve gone into Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Multimedia and checked Enable Automatic Image Resizing.
It doesn’t matter. Images still come in too large for the screen.
What do I need to do to solve the problem?
Install Firefox is not an answer. I want an IE7 answer.
bump.
I know we’ve dealt with this before. Some computer maven has to have an answer.
good question. 
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase]
I thought this has been asked, but I can’t find it.
In IE7, I’ve gone into Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Multimedia and checked Enable Automatic Image Resizing.
It doesn’t matter. Images still come in too large for the screen.
What do I need to do to solve the problem?
Install Firefox is not an answer. I want an IE7 answer.
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Does it happen with all large images at all sites, or just a specific one that you’re interested in? If so, it’s possible that the site has some Satanic layering thing or other code that works around the IE resizing. If not, then maybe something in your Registry is interfering. Yes, I know that IE’s options are supposed to set it, and yet sometimes it doesn’t “take”; I don’t know why. To check, open your Registry with Regedit, and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
and see if there is an entry for “Enable AutoImageResize” that has a value of “no”. If so, try changing it to “yes”.
Automatic Image Resize only operates on images that aren’t embedded into an HTML page.
[QUOTE=Una Persson]
Does it happen with all large images at all sites, or just a specific one that you’re interested in? If so, it’s possible that the site has some Satanic layering thing or other code that works around the IE resizing. If not, then maybe something in your Registry is interfering. Yes, I know that IE’s options are supposed to set it, and yet sometimes it doesn’t “take”; I don’t know why. To check, open your Registry with Regedit, and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
and see if there is an entry for “Enable AutoImageResize” that has a value of “no”. If so, try changing it to “yes”.
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Thank you, but it is already yes.
I’ve noticed it lately at one site, but it’s certainly happened before.
I’m not sure what it being embedded into html means. What internet pages would not fall into this category?
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase]
…What internet pages would not fall into this category?
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The Auto image resize feature only works for displaying a naked image, ie the url you navigate to is http://someplace.com/xyz.jpg or whatever.
Different web pages on different sites can react differently to your window size depending on what html they send to teh browser. So on some sites you’ll see image scaling behavior and on others you won’t. That’s under the control of the website author, not the browser operator.
I see the distinction.
Then I guess the question is, is there a fix - a program, maybe - that allows you to resize naked jpeg’s?
And yes, I realize the double meaning there! 
btw, just clicking on the image toggles between full-size and shrunk-to-fit. Does that work on your comp?
Nope.
What about php generated pages? Are they the problem?
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What about php generated pages? Are they the problem?
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Yes - as said earlier, this feature only works on images, not on pages that contain images.
E.g. Look at what’s in your address bar. What are the final few letters after the last dot? Because it won’t work on blabla.php or blabla.html. It will only work on blabla.jpg, blabla.png, or blabla.gif.
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase]
I see the distinction.
Then I guess the question is, is there a fix - a program, maybe - that allows you to resize naked jpeg’s?
And yes, I realize the double meaning there! 
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If you want to resize a local image, you can use any reasonable image-editing program: Paint, ImageMagick, Photoshop, the GIMP, …
But IIUC you have a problem with large images embedded in remote HTML pages; you’d like the images to be smaller even if the HTML says otherwise (or, more likely, doesn’t say at all, in which case the image size defaults to its “natural” 1-pixel-per-pixel size). It’s hard to give a good general fix here. However, one approach you could use would be to write a small JavaScript applet which looks for large images in a web page and forces them to resize. Here is a very basic version, not made browser-independent or otherwise very nice:
javascript:
ia = document.getElementsByTagName("img");
for ( n = 0; n < ia.length; ++n ) {
x = ia[n].offsetWidth;
y = ia[n].offsetHeight;
sx = sy = 1;
if ( x > 500 ) sx = 500/x;
if ( y > 400 ) sy = 400/y;
s = sx < sy ? sx : sy;
ia[n].style.width = Math.floor(s*x) + "px";
ia[n].style.height = Math.floor(s*y) + "px";
}
void 0
This code loops through all images on the current web page (it will not descend into frames or iframes, however; it also won’t resize background images or embedded Flash); whenever it finds one more than 500 pixels wide or 400 pixels tall it rescales (isotropically) to fit in a 500x400 box. You may want to change this code to look for images with a large area (e.g., x*y>1000000) to avoid rescaling things like separator bars and struts, which are sometimes used in structural layout of web pages.
To use this, create a version of this code on a single line, like this:
javascript:ia=document.getElementsByTagName('img');for(n=0;n<ia.length;++n){x=ia[n].offsetWidth;y=ia[n].offsetHeight;sx=sy=1;if(x>500){sx=500/x;}if(y>400){sy=400/y;}s=sx<sy?sx:sy;ia[n].style.width=Math.floor(s*x)+'px';ia[n].style.height=Math.floor(s*y)+'px';}void 0
and paste it into your address bar when you’re at an offending web page. To make it easier, you can save this code as a “bookmarklet” available by a click on your Links toolbar, or presumably whatever the IE7 equivalent is. (On IE6, create a new Link by dragging something onto the Links toolbar. Then right-click it to get Properties. Under the “General” tab give the link a name like “Image resize”; under the “Web Document” tab paste this code in as the URL.)
This works for me on IEv6 and Mozilla 1.7.3; I don’t have IE7 so I can’t test it there.