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| Thread ID: 22547 | 2002-07-24 05:44:00 | All the little pictures have vanished! | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 64806 | 2002-07-24 05:44:00 | Hi Team I just went to use Google to look up some information and instead of the usual nice multicoloured Google up front, all I got was some boxes with coloured blobs. I logged on to F1 to ask the question and all the icons are similarly gone. Everything else is looking and working OK, so I guess something has turned itself off and I have become Gifless (or whatever). :( Gasp!! All the emoticons in the pop-up box have gone too. All I see is little boxes with a couple of dots in the middle, except for the laughing one which has the familiar coloured blobs (red square, blue triangle, green circle) Any pointers as to where to look? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 64807 | 2002-07-24 05:51:00 | (1) You didn't pay Unisys their licencing fee for using GIFs. :-( They have started the crackdown. (2) Something in your computer has changed itself. "Genetic programming" has finally produced results. ;-) (Corny). (3) What about a reboot? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 64808 | 2002-07-24 06:33:00 | Reboot was the first option tried Graham, but I do subscribe to the genetic programming idea, corny as it is . Perhaps it is a new development of auto-geneticism . Could be an aberrant cross-fertilisation though, after all, the blobs are red green and blue with a black outline . Oh dear! What a horrible thought: Could my computer be making a political statement? However, I am still looking for ideas . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 64809 | 2002-07-24 06:45:00 | Well I went through the most likely things first ... ;-) Has your firewall decided that pictures are subversive and might contain virus code? Or your AV scanner? Or Xtra's? That's the problem (one of the problems) with modern stuff. Settings which have significant effects are scattered in different toolbar choices, and even between different heaps of bloatware. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 64810 | 2002-07-24 06:47:00 | Hmm . . small images . . . gone blurry . . . Sounds like you need to call in an optometrist . . . :D |
Elwin Way (229) | ||
| 64811 | 2002-07-24 06:57:00 | Nope, it's not my firewall and I've made no configuration changes. Glasses are clean too and brandy bottle is still full. I've thought hard and there is only one clue, I first noticed it when on a website optimised for Netscape 3.0. At the time I assumed that Netsacpe 3.0 and I.E. 5.0 were not friends. It wasn't until a little later that I noticed it was affecting all sites. Still looking............... Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 64812 | 2002-07-24 07:27:00 | what happens when you just go to view an image on IE that is located on your drive. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 64813 | 2002-07-24 09:04:00 | The plot thickens JM! Gifs and jpg files won't open. The IE window opens but the little red, blue & green greebnch is all that appears. (A greebnch is a close relative of a bubnch.) Bitmaps won't open at all, that is, no action on screen. File associations were all reset before trying this. Seems that Internet Explorer has lost interest in image files. So, where to from here? Anybody know what file gets called in IE to display these image files. I have the backups, I need the direction. All this is damaging my image! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 64814 | 2002-07-24 09:34:00 | >>So, where to from here? DOS |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 64815 | 2002-07-24 09:51:00 | I love it when you talk dossy to me Heather, but my version of IE will only cohabit with Windows. Any serious suggestions F1'ers? This is not mission-critical but it's getting on my wick a bit. It's those greebnchs you see. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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