Pictures in Emails

[David]

I'm on an Windows XP machine with Office 2007 Standard Edition installed. Today, emails with inline images stopped displaying inside of outlook (either using the preview window or opening the email itself). When the image is initially displayed, it has a red X. I right click and select download images to view the images in the email. Outlook appears to be downloading the image but then just shows the red X. In doing some google searches I have found suggestions to reset the registry value "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\BLOCKHTTPIMAGES" from 1 to 0. Mine is already set to 0. The only other suggestion I says to go to Editor Options\Advanced\Display Email Content and uncheck "Show picture placeholders". Mine was already unchecked. I have alos tried doing a repair on Outlook to no avail. No new network changes or system changes have occurred since this error started happening. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

TIA,

David

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I'm on an Windows XP machine with Office 2007 Standard Edition installed.
Today, emails with inline images stopped displaying inside of outlook
(either using the preview window or opening the email itself). When the
image is initially displayed, it has a red X.

See this: http://www.slipstick.com/problems/redx.asp

 

[ritzput]

Also try:
Unblock automatic picture downloads in Outlook 2007
http://www.emailsignature.eu/phpBB2/ol-2007-block-or-unblock-automatic-picture-downloads-t561.html

Have you "MANUALLY" deleted your temporary internet folders lately?
You may also want to be sure to periodically delete your temporary internet
files "MANLUALLY" as doing this through explorer/tools/Internet Options/
Delete Browsing History/ doesn't work!!!!!!!!!

click on link below to find your operating system:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/securetemp.htm AND
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/redx.asp

When temporary internet folder gets "full" you may have problems opening
email attachments or embedded images won't display. If you open image
attachments in Windows Photo or Image viewer and click next, you may see old
images you thought you deleted. Delete the files in the folder to fix.

When you open attachments on email directly from Outlook, a copy is written
to a temporary folder on your hard drive. This is so that the virus scanner
can check it before it is opened. The folder Outlook uses is under the temp
internet folders. This offers more security as only your user account and the
computer administrator account can view the files under this folder. The only
way to avoid "losing" attachments in this well hidden folder is to save them
to your hard drive, before opening. Few people do this (myself included).

Do you see just empty white boxes where the images were supposed to be? If
you do, try this solution. It is the Show Picture Placeholders option.
The description for it says "Display an empty box in place of each graphic
in the document to improve scrolling performance"

To disable this option, do the following:

Create a New email, click the Office Button in the top left, choose the
Editor Options button at the bottom right, select Advanced, scroll down to
the "Display email content" section and make sure there is no tick next to
the "Show Picture Placeholders" option.

Hope one of these solutions works for you!
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[Richard B]

I do not get attachment pictures from good sources when I use Outlook 2007 to
get my mail. I can get it if I use either MSN or Yahoo but when I download it
to my outlook 2007, the attachment is not there! I have looked at the hints
on the three postings and information and will try it. I also use XP with
all the upgrades and have tried some of the things mentioned but have not
gotten into the registry to edit the items noted. If you have any further
suggestions, please e-mail me directly or leave a posting here. e-mail:
(e-mail address removed)
Thank you,

Dick