This may help to get your IE back in order.
p.s. other have had success in just repairing I.E.
Add/Remove programs/MS/IE/repair...
Or,
Pictures Are Not Displayed on Web Sites in Internet Explorer
A Web page may display an image as a red X, or a placeholder may appear in
place of the image.
Covers also this problem: Web page that is encoded for the Western European
(ISO) code page might not display any images:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807 (i. e. 5, 6.
W95/98/se/ME/NT4/W2000/XP 9/19/2003)
Henri:
Bet you'll never guess what! I fixed my own problem.
Basically, I followed the instructions in the Microsoft Bulletin 283807 you
referenced above
to change the code table specified in my registry EXCEPT.... Instead of
specifying the
c_28591.nls as the default, I changed the default to c_1252.nls. Note that I
am using
IE6.0 and Windows XP Pro.
c_1252 is the code table for Western European (Windows)
c_28591 is the code table for Western European (ISO)
Since the problem goes away temporarily by changing the view encoding to the
(Windows)
version not the (ISO) version, I reasoned that c_1252 might just work.
After rebooting, the problem was history.
Also, its not really obvious from the Microsoft bulletin that the registry
line that needs to
be changed is the first line in that section of the registry. In this case,
this is the
default code that will be used. This said, it beats the heck out of me as to
why the
registry default setting should "over-ride" the setting specified in the web
page itself!
Oh well, it worked.
So, it turns out the problem was simple after all. Sure glad I didn't resort
to reloading windows!
You'll probably want to add a reference to this discovery on your web site,
but don't forget
to tell folks to back up their registry (Or do a System Restore Save Point),
and then to
reboot after making the change.
John Mann
Follow up:
Don't forget that the code file for Western European (Windows) for Windows
98 and
Windows ME is "cp_1252.nls" instead of the equivalent file "c_1252.nls" that
I used for
NT 2K and XP.
For what its worth, my other two computers (Windows ME and Windows 2K) have
no default
specified at the beginning of the registry code table section but yet, they
both work fine.
To me, that means that there is something else wrong with my XP system.
None-the-less, the
change I made does appear to be working fine. I have had no further
problems.
Good Luck,
Source: John Mann
--
Henri Leboeuf
Web page:
http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
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Rick said:
----- Hack wrote: -----
compatability
problem with many DSL services and IE 6.0 and
hope the problem goes away..
Please provide more detail..
More detail regarding what?
The encoding problem that 80% of this board is having is that when you
innocently combine many branded high speed DSL services with Microsoft's
current version of IE 6.0, you get a variety of website pages that won't
load the pictures. Instead, you get white boxes with little red x's and have
to manually change the setting (Toolbar: View, Encoding, then choose Western
European (ISO or Windows format). No offense meant to Microsoft or their
board MVP's, but after you waste all your time with a variety of repairs and
reloads of IE 6.0..... you'll come to realize that you can just go download
another web browser like Opera or Netscape and the problem GOES AWAY.
