Alt text not showing on images...??

[Guest]

I have XP and am running Internet Explorer 6 with service pack 2. For some
reason I cannot see the alt text for images (on sites which I know have alt
text) when you hover your mouse over the image. It works on other computers
like the ones at work and I know mine used to because it worked when I first
built the pages but for some reason it does'nt work anymore. (Unless I hit
the alt key on the key board but then I have to click the mouse in order to
go and point at another image which will only show the alt text if I hit the
key again) Can anybody tell me how to fix the problem? I have checked the
advanced tab in internet tools and tried the check box that says 'always
expand alt text for images' both ways with no results?? Here is one of my
pages which I know has alt text for each image:
http://www.sonic.net/~jayrob/westcoast/
Frustrated,
Jay

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I have XP and am running Internet Explorer 6 with service pack 2. For some
reason I cannot see the alt text for images (on sites which I know have alt
text) when you hover your mouse over the image. It works on other computers
like the ones at work and I know mine used to because it worked when I first
built the pages but for some reason it does'nt work anymore. (Unless I hit
the alt key on the key board but then I have to click the mouse in order to
go and point at another image which will only show the alt text if I hit the
key again) Can anybody tell me how to fix the problem? I have checked the
advanced tab in internet tools and tried the check box that says 'always
expand alt text for images' both ways with no results??

Did you restart IE each time? It looks as if that option is one of the
"requires restart". Otherwise just toggling it would have had no effect.


Alternatively try the list of regsvr32 commands given in KB831429
They are a useful subset of the full effect other IE users can get from
an IE Repair (ref. KB194177).


Also you can try the iexplore.exe /rereg switch but first fix some errors in ieuinit.inf

From a previous post:

<excerpt>
Specifically I found the following errors on mine (mostly to do with whether
there is a DllRegisterServer entry point or just a DllInstall entry point
in each of the following modules:

%11%\comctl32.dll,NI
%11%\digest.dll,NI
%11%\inetcpl.cpl,NI (I deleted the first and left this.)
;%11%\msapsspc.dll (I actually deleted this line.)

Making those four changes allowed the whole section to execute cleanly.
</excerpt>


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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