When you load a web page, the AOL servers to which you are connected compress all the images within the page rather than pass them on to you in their original format. This means that the pages load faster, but they also lose quality...rather a lot of quality. A standard installation of AOL software has image compression switched on by default, and you are seeing the web all fuzzy and distorted. To switch off image compression and see the web as its site-designers intended follow the instructions below.

1. Go to 'My-AOL' and select 'Preferences'.
2. Select the WWW option, and then the 'web-graphics' tab.
3. Uncheck the 'compress graphics' box, and then click 'OK'.

It's a good idea to empty your browser's web cache too at this point, so that it doesn't simply use the old, compressed versions of graphics from sites you've recently visited, but loads new, uncompressed, copies of the images.