[geministars]

I have a computer with Windows 98 with all critical updates using Internet Explorer 6.0, 128mb ram.

At times when I go to a web page the page opens with a blank canvas with a box or boxes that have inside each box a tiny red square a green circle and a blue triangle. This has just started and I am having a hard time trying to narrow down the problem. Are there any ideas? Have not changed any settings at all.

Also can a person download Internet Explorer again, save to desktop, delete the current internet exporer and reinstall with new download in Windows 98 SE?

Any help or comments will be appreciated.

Thank You
geministars

 

[Krelian]

What do you mean pictures will not load? Just some or all? Are you sure that it's not the website itself? There are broken picture links and bandwidth cutoffs everywhere on the internet.

Another suggestion:

Have you made sure that "Show Pictures" is checked in the multimedia section of the advanced tab of Internet Explorer options?

Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced Tab -> Multimedia : "Show Pictures"

 

[geministars]

Went to www.discovery.com on windows xp machine and page is fine. Will not load pictures when using windows 98. This does not happen on all web pages when using Windows 98.

Yes show pictures is checked.

Thank You
geministars

 

[Krelian]

Are you running any firewalls? Have you recently added to your HOSTS file in windows?

 

[geministars]

This is roadrunner and I do not have firewall that I installed and did not add to host file.

Antivirus is NAV2003. Would any type of spyware change or add to host file?

Thank You
geministars

 

[Krelian]

I wouldn't be suprized. It sounds really out there, but maybe you could check your host file. Other than that, I'm clueless

 

[Krelian]

You can uninstall IE in Add/Remove, and then update windows off microsofts website. Chances are the setup file is still on your computer anyway though, I know that mine is in program files.

 

[geministars]

Can you give me some pointers as to what to look for?
Also the location. I am assuming windows system32 folder. I have never looked in to the host file so I am knew to it.

Thank You
geministars

 

[Cowboy622]

See if this helps you:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;NL;q283807
or:
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/ieimage.htm#IMAGEREDX

or :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;171908

OR:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246186

Or:
There are three things you should check: (I see you already did #2)
1) On the View menu in IE, point to Encoding , and then click Western European (Windows).
2) Verify that Show Pictures has not been disabled:
- On the Tools menu, click Internet Options .
- Click the Advanced tab, and then verify that the Show Pictures check box is selected under Multimedia .
- Click OK .
3) Restore Default Associations for Graphics File Types :
Go to Folder Options/File Types, and make sure that the following file types are associated by default with Microsoft Internet Explorer (Iexplore.exe):
ART image (.art)
GIF image (.gfa, .gif)
JPEG image (.jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg)

Or see:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#jpg_gif

OR:
Have you checked for a virus or worm or spyware.
Ad-Ware Checks and removes spyware http://www.lavasoft.nu/

SWAT a free trojan program and free updates for life. http://swatit.org/download.html

PC Cillion is an online free virus checker http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

OR:
If it is only occuring with one file type, the problem could be the registry's file association has been corrupted.

For gif's try the "all in one" gif fix here

For jpegs, try the jpeg fix.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/one.human/reg/GIF_IE_fix.reg

http://www3.sympatico.ca/one.human/reg/JPE_JPEG_JPG_IE_fix.reg

They are from this site:

http://www.geocities.com/one_human/advanced.html#mspaint_fix

You can download them to a convenient folder and double click them to merge. They will reset those file associations to their Windows defaults.

OR:
10. (Thanks to Rollin' Rog) See this Norton link regarding NIS
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...77ee338ff06cf3b5882568a1006a69a3?OpenDocument

Also try disabling the "privacy" feature, we've seen that cause problems as well...
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...46fb88c6068d13dc65256b3d0030762e?OpenDocument

Hope one of these things helps you. I've accumulated these from a number of different posts on this subject.

 

[Krelian]

The host file is in windows, it has no extention, you can add .txt to the end of it to view it. Chances are if you don't know where it is, you wont know if anything is wrong with it though. Besides, I really really doubt that it has anything to do with it. I've never heard of any spyware to do that, however there are programs that edit the host file out there. Nothing I can think of that would do that though.

I'd reinstall IE to see if that fixed the problem, if it doesn't then there must be some factor that's blocking the images from downloading.