Images not showing

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Gordon

I am having problems with images not showing. It does not happen all the
time, but over the last few days has got considerably worse. All I get is
the little red cross in the corner of the box where the image should be. I
have 5G spare disk space on my C drive plus stacks more on other drives. I
have tried deleting the Temporary Internet Files, but this made no
difference.

Any suggestions as to what is causing this?

Gordon
 
Many thanks for your reply, Jon. Unfortunately, whilst very informative,
the info on the sites you linked to has not cured my problem.

Everything seems to work when I first log in, but after a short while the
images stop appearing. If I delete my Temp Internet files and then go back
to a page that showed images before, it no longer displays those images. A
classic example is the BBC News site news.bbc.co.uk. Many of the stories
include an image. When I first log in, the home page displays all images ok
and a few stories will display images. Soon the images stop displaying. If
I delete the Temp files so the cache is cleared then go back to a story I
viewed earlier the image(s) no longer displays.

I've tried deleting all files in the Temp folder, all cookies, all history
files, exported all my favourites and then deleted them, performed a full
virus check with up to date virus definitions.

I use Windows XP Home with SP2, IE6 and have broadband. I have a
modem/router with built-in firewall and also have the default XP Firewall
on. I don't have any other software firewall. I have 2 profiles on my pc,
and both profiles exhibit the same behaviour.

I'm running out of idea's now so all suggestions would be most welcome!!!

Gordon
 
It gets more curious!! I followed the instructions to delete the entire TIF
folder. Now I can't seem to get into any news.bbc.co.uk page at all - I
can't even get a response by pinging it. I tried www.bbc.co.uk and so far
haven't encountered any problems. I tried some other photo sharing sites.
I had no problem at all at Fickr or Photobox, but cannot get any photos in a
Yahoo public album to show at all. The folder thumbnails are OK, but when I
open any folder, all images just show with that dreaded red cross in the
corner.

It's late here in the UK now, so I'm off to bed. Will try bbc news again
tomrrow.

Gordon
 
Had another go at news.bbc.co.uk. The first 6 pages I tried worked fine.
Then all images at the site stopped appearing except for those already
loaded into the cache. Flickr still showed images OK.

Gordon
 
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