PA Bear,
You are exactly correct. After a little further research the
culprit was not SpywareBlaster, but SpySweeper V3.0 with the Common Ads
shield option selected. If I unselect it, it immediately puts the hosts
file back to normal. Thanks.
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What sites?
Think again, LB. SpywareBlaster doesn't add entries to your HOSTS
file, it disables Registry hooks used by spyware and puts numerous
sites in Restricted Sites zone, among other things.
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L.B. wrote:
I sincerely appreciate everyone's help. The problem was fixed when I
opened my hosts file and deleted all the sites that I assume
SpywareBlaster added. Once I closed the file and saved it, got on the
net and all gifs now show. Thanks again.
:
Robert,
I don't know what you are talking about with the TIF viewer. I
did however clear my temporary internet folder by first empting it
and all offline content. Then logging on as administrator and
deleting the temp. int. folder itself, for me, the only user on this
computer. Windows has rebuilt the temp int folder now but i don't
have any of the weird name subfolders under it now. My problem
still exists with the gif images that have "not available" under the
type, date, and size. All other gifs show just fine.
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Don, I don't know if this helps but it appears that the gif images
that
don't show up all have "not available" as their type and size under
properties. They all show .gif extensions though. On my other
computer
the same .gif image shows as an acdsee gif image under
properties/type.
Where are the images? I think you could have this symptom if the
image was not cached on one system but cached on the other. Check
on that using the TIF viewer with Details view sorted by Last
Accessed. Keystrokes: Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V Alt-V,D Alt-V,I,Last
Accessed End
Both machines have acdsee installed and have been that way for
years. Something has changed recently only on this machine. I
have tried reinstalling ie6 on this xp pro machine and that did
not help. All of the
other suggestions as to ie settings to show pics and such appear to
be in order. I have not reinstall windows itself. As I said it
isn't all images or even all gifs, just some of them. Any other
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
You haven't mentioned the most common suggestion which is to flush
your TIF. Even if the image is cacheable it might not be inserted
into to the TIF properly if the TIF is full and being updated by
having to throw stuff out before new stuff can be added. E.g.
maybe the stuff being thrown out is some of the stuff which was
just added and maybe that happened before the thing being thrown
out could be rendered.
Etc.
Clearing the TIF avoids all that uncertainty and extra processing.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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Don,
thanks for the links. unfortunately i had already been to
those sites and checked the suggested settings and tried the
fixes. none has helped. what is strange is that some gif images
will appear but most will not. i can't see any difference
between the ones that show and don't show in their properties.
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Hi,
There are many possibilities.
See: 283807 - Pictures Are Not Displayed on Web Sites in Internet
Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807
and
http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/redx.htm
and
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#jpg_gif
Hope this helps,
Don
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"L.B." <L.B.[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
out of the blue my computer is not displaying some gif images in
internet
explorer and outlook express. all jpegs show and some gif images
show but most just show the placeholder with a red x. any
suggustions would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
