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good ol' Eck · 25th June 2003, 09:00 AM

My internet thingy is absolutly fucked. You know how some pictures and images come up as a square with a red cross on it? well EVERY image on any web page does that. i've no idea how to fix it but its making the net pretty much non-useable. its crap. Anyone any ideas?

Misanthropy · 25th June 2003, 12:11 PM

Nae idea mate... There's an option in IE to turn off images, but it should show the image placeholder, rather than the red cross. Installed anything freaky recently?

Red_Baron · 25th June 2003, 12:40 PM

I've got quite a few. First try going to view-encoding and set it to auto. if this keeps changing you're going to need to fanny about in the registry as something has fucked it up. Won't go into detail here as there are around 6 different things it could be and I'm at work at the moment.

Check if it's with gifs and jpegs as well as that could narrow the problem down to a graphics app. Quicktime fucked mine up about a month or so ago.

One thing you could try is to reset your file associations for gifs and jpegs to IE, but that doesn't work all the time. I'm guessing your using win 98/XP and IE6

I'll give you more infor when I get home

25th June 2003, 09:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
good ol' Eck Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Dundee Posts: 789	help My internet thingy is absolutly fucked. You know how some pictures and images come up as a square with a red cross on it? well EVERY image on any web page does that. i've no idea how to fix it but its making the net pretty much non-useable. its crap. Anyone any ideas?

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25th June 2003, 12:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
Misanthropy Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 4,101	Nae idea mate... There's an option in IE to turn off images, but it should show the image placeholder, rather than the red cross. Installed anything freaky recently?

25th June 2003, 12:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
Red_Baron Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Dundee/Alyth hybrid Posts: 1,504 Band: 15 Minutes	I've got quite a few. First try going to view-encoding and set it to auto. if this keeps changing you're going to need to fanny about in the registry as something has fucked it up. Won't go into detail here as there are around 6 different things it could be and I'm at work at the moment. Check if it's with gifs and jpegs as well as that could narrow the problem down to a graphics app. Quicktime fucked mine up about a month or so ago. One thing you could try is to reset your file associations for gifs and jpegs to IE, but that doesn't work all the time. I'm guessing your using win 98/XP and IE6 I'll give you more infor when I get home