Red X's on web pages (W98)

[wonkabear]

This may be the wrong forum, however, when surfing the web using IE 6.0 (SP1) on Win98, I come across web sites where red x's appear when there should be a picture (jpg, bmp,etc). I read somewhere that there was a registry setting that would prevent this from happening and allow the picture to be shown. Does anyone have any suggestions. This also happens in my email program, Outlook Express, when someone sends a picture included in the email...a red x shows where the picture should be. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[TonyKlein]

Hi,

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)

4) If you have Norton Firewall or NIS installed, uninstall and reinstall the program.

It might also be a good idea to install the latest version of <a target="_blank" href=http://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/win95/fixes/VM/msjavx86.exe>Microsoft Virtual Machine</a>

And here's a MS article:

<a target="_blank" href=http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807>Web Page Displays an Image As a Red X or Not at All (Q283807)</a>

Cheers, Tony