Automatic resizing of large images is a feature Microsoft built into Internet Explorer, and turned ON by default. In my opinion, when large images are scaled to fit the screen it can make them a little too distorted. Most of the time I find I end up just clicking the little resize image box in the lower right hand corner, this tells the browswer to display the image as it was meant to be seen.

Luckily this is one feature which is super easy to turn off in Internet Explorer. To do this you need to open up Internet Explorer and go to Tools menu, from there select Internet Options. If you don’t see the File/Edit/View/Favourits/Tools/Help menu at all, just hit the ALT key once to bring it up.

Click on the Advanced tab and you should see a window with a lot of radio and check boxes. Scroll down to the “Multimedia Section” and from there un-check the “Enable Automatic Image Resizing” box. Click the Ok button and now you’re set. Images will no longer resize to fit in the Internet Explorer Window!

While you’re in there, you might want to also un-check “Play Sounds in Webpages“. This stops background music from automatically playing on websites that have it embedded. It won’t affect websites like Myspace where you want to hear tunes though.