I know that overlapping words and graphics sometimes appear because the
browser is set to a larger font than the web designer has left room for, so
the text and graphics overlap. You might try reducing your font size in IE
(Menu: View --> Text Size).
I'm having a similar problem to jojo1, in that many ads and pictures on
webpages (especially on Yahoo's network of pages) don't show, and many have
"Page cannot be displayed" in their place. Most of the time they're just
invisible.
I had been running a utility program called AdsGone, which suppresses
popups, animation and Flash. Most of the time it works very well. But I was
having problems seeing non-advertising pictures on Yahoo. I wound up
uninstalling it to see if that would help, and that seemed to make it even
worse, now that I'm getting these "cannot be displayed" messages in the place
of ads, and still blank space where "legitimate" pictures should be.
It might be related to jojo's problem, so I thought I'd mention it here. I
hope someone can shed some light on this. It's driving me nuts! I started to
use Firefox instead but it's so slow I that I want to try IE again. I'm using
IE6. I installed the latest SP2 upgrade today, with no change. I'm running
Win-XP-pro SP2.
Thanks very much to anyone who can help with this.
Jo