IE6 shows Red X's where gifs should be on web pages

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I've done some research and found that the cause of this
is "Encoding" is changed from Western Eurpoean (Windows)
to Western Eurpoean (ISO), but when I change it the next
time I open a web page it's changed back from (Windows) to
(ISO).
Any Clues about how I can make these changes hold in IE6 ?
This is occurring on a Windows 98 SE PC with .............
AMD 450Mhz / 256MB RAM and 8MB AGP (Speedstar A50 Video)

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

JL
 
Hi JL,

I have some information which may resolve your problem.
Try these steps and check if you still see the Red X Pics.
1. Click Start -> Control Panel.
2. Click Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab and then click Custom Level.
4. Enable all the Active X controls and click OK.
5. Click the Advanced tab.
6. Under multimedia section, check the Show Pictures
option.
7. Click Apply and OK.

Happy new year.
Patrick
 
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 6/4/2003)


From a previous posts.

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
 
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