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Comment from David on 2008-11-18

2008-11-18T09:16:22Z

Leo thank you for your help. this information helped like you mentioned to go in the multi media and then click on the tab that says show pictures it worked. I was going crasy trying to figure out what was causing this and thankfully I found your site. Thanks David

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Comment from alan on 2008-09-20

2008-09-20T16:46:07Z

all i get in yahoo is red blocks instead of pictures. can you please help. Thanks Alan

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Comment from Lisa on 2008-08-30

2008-08-30T11:38:48Z

Thanks for taking your time to do this website, this helps me sooo much with problems i run into.

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Comment from ALTI on 2008-08-29

2008-08-29T14:13:26Z

One of the computers on our server is having a problem viewing images and even buttons on websites visited. There is no red 'x' and no downloading icon, only blank white space - which they can roll over with their mouse and view the tag on the appropriate button...only if they know it is there....What could this problem be?

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Comment from alex boyd on 2008-08-26

2008-08-26T19:57:30Z

i have just built a basic website in office publisher all my photo's come up in firefox but some are missing in internet explorer and i just get the red cross how can i fix it? please

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Comment from T Swift on 2008-08-25

2008-08-26T00:49:54Z

Of all the articles I've read about the red X's NONE of them address the problem if you are running att yahoo e-mail. They do NOT have the same commands that Outlook Express has. Does ANYONE have the problem with ATT Yahoo ???

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Comment from Victoria on 2008-08-19

2008-08-19T18:10:02Z

I only have trouble seeing the Yahoo pictures (I get red blocks like many of you) when my Verizon Internet Security Suite is on. When I disconnect that, everything is fine, but then I don't want to leave my computer unprotected. I don't know how to turn off whatever setting is stopping me from seeing the imsges. But it's really annoying.

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Comment from Phil on 2008-08-02

2008-08-02T18:54:06Z

Thanks....all I needed to do was click "Show Pictures" and everything cleared up....boy IE7 can sure cause some trauma!!!

Phil Freeland

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Comment from Marcus M on 2008-07-29

2008-07-29T17:20:00Z

this article helped me soo much! after i read it it, the problem seemed so simple but i just couldnt figure out how to get pictures to show up on my pages. i was in the right advanced area i just didnt know where to look

long story short....THANKS ALOT!!!

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Comment from jacob on 2008-07-19

2008-07-19T09:10:27Z

All of that didn't work, I guess it is important top note that this only happens in vista

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Comment from priju on 2008-07-18

2008-07-18T14:53:26Z

Thanks buddy,
It really works.

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Comment from Betty on 2008-07-04

2008-07-04T11:35:31Z

I am having the same problem as some other people so I have avoided the Yahoo homepage. Here is my problem on my Yahoo homepage, the pictures in the boxes are not showing I am getting the box filled entirely with the color red. It is very frustrating. HELP

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Comment from Purita on 2008-06-30

2008-07-01T04:57:21Z

I am getting white boxes with red x's on myspace and also some emails I receive. I have followed your instructions but nothing seems to work. Can you please help? Thank you.

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Comment from Vivian on 2008-06-24

2008-06-24T16:44:59Z

I'm having the same problem as William, Michelle and Sarah -- the solid red box, but only on one website. As this is happening in both Explorer and Firefox, I'm wondering if this might be a Java issue?

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Comment from Lisa Hooglan on 2008-06-10

2008-06-11T06:11:04Z

I can't even understand the page because it doesn't have the description of one of the pictures of what could happen. I see a red square, a green circle, and a blue triangle.

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Comment from sarah on 2008-05-20

2008-05-20T18:15:53Z

I have the same problem as it seems others do. When on myspace I have problems viewing pictures. Not on everyone's pages but on certain pages I can't view pictures. Can you please help?

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Comment from Michelle on 2008-04-20

2008-04-20T19:52:34Z

I have the same problem as William described. On my Yahoo homepage, the pictures in most of the boxes are not showing -- instead I am getting the box filled entirely with the colour red. This started about a month ago and my setting for pictures is enabled. Pics on other sites seem to be coming through fine.

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Comment from Melanie on 2008-04-15

2008-04-15T14:21:14Z

Hi My laptop wont show scene7 images from the s7ondemand site. When i try to go to the website scene7ondemand.com it is not recognised. does anyone no why?

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Comment from William on 2008-04-04

2008-04-04T13:50:13Z

Why when I look at certain pages do I see red boxes instead of the pictures themselves? How do I resolve this? They're not the red X boxes, they're completely red.

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Comment from Jessica on 2008-02-19

2008-02-19T18:49:20Z

Some pics are showing up as red x's only on myspace. I have tried adjusting internet options, changing content type, etc. and it's still not working. Can you help?

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Comment from top kervin on 2008-02-07

2008-02-07T18:14:13Z

Phone number are hidden momements after the brower go to the web page. Why? How do I stop that from happening?

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Comment from RON J. on 2008-02-06

2008-02-06T22:35:51Z

I have no problems with pictures on emails that are sent to me,it is only when i forward these same emails to my friends that the pictures are blank with a red cross in the top left hand corner sometimes.

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Comment from Ezziej on 2008-01-26

2008-01-27T02:10:03Z

I tried to download from another email and I got the red x instead of the cert. When I downloaded the cert. from my flash drive I get half a picture. If I just forward from my other email I get the cert but I need it bigger..Am I losing it?

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Comment from Garren on 2008-01-02

2008-01-03T02:05:47Z

My question is why don't images on myspace don't show all the time on my computer, if you have a answer to this your quick respond would be grateful
thanks Leo

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Comment from Ann on 2007-12-31

2007-12-31T08:18:02Z

Like everyone else, I don't see any pics on my laptop only from myspace. It seems that's one and the few sites that arent allowing me to view pics. I have also tried like everyone, to disable links, change firewalls, delete temp folders and clean the cache. Its frustrating. Someone told me its a program I have to upload, is that true? If anyone has an idea as to what the heck is causing this, please let me know!! My friends laptops can see pics just fine on myspace.

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Comment from Miki on 2007-12-21

2007-12-21T16:21:31Z

There are certain pictures that are completely red~~no boxes with red 'x's....completely red. have you come across this before ?
thanks

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Comment from pat on 2007-12-17

2007-12-18T02:59:27Z

on some e-mails , all the pictures don't show upand I get blank spaces with red crosses however they show up on my photos but I was reading two reasons that could be but I couldn't do anthing about the problem. please tell me if there is somthing I can do & exactly what it is thank you!

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Comment from Janet on 2007-12-16

2007-12-17T06:43:14Z

There are certain pictures that are completely red~~no boxes with red 'x's....completely red. have you come across this before ?
thanks :-)

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Comment from mary on 2007-11-20

2007-11-21T02:54:32Z

on myspace the pictures dont show up, there arent any red x's or anything, its just blank, but then once you click home or go to a new page, it shows up for a brief second.

can i do anything to fix that?

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Comment from Roy Milner on 2007-11-14

2007-11-14T23:26:52Z

When I receive some email, picture do not display in the main body of the mail. They just appear as a box with a red cross in the corner. Other emails are OK. The problem emails display OK on another PC. Both machines or running win xp and emails are downloaded via the same ISP to Microsoft outlook 2000. Can you help?

Cheers

Roy

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Comment from featherdance on 2007-10-03

2007-10-03T23:27:39Z

my problem is only on myspace, and only on my laptop, which i use at home and when i'm on the road. several of my friends' photos are showing that red 'x' in the upper left hand corner. i have tried absolutely everything from turning off my firewall, flushdns, disabling third party browser extensions, to everything i've read from anyone making suggestions, and nothing has worked. could the fact that i'm on dial-up be a factor? my pc at my place of business is showing everything just fine, and i have dsl there. i've also noticed that the only pics turning up with the 'x' are of those friends who recently changed their default photos. this is frustrating the life out of me. can anyone help????

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Comment from Sandie Gibbs on 2007-09-29

2007-09-29T17:59:12Z

I can't get my comments to show up. They show on my home page but not my profile. What can I do?

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Comment from needing help :( on 2007-06-25

2007-06-25T17:30:49Z

how do you check whether its the softweare on your computer stoping you from viewing images and showing up with a cross? please RASAP

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Comment from TheOutsider on 2007-06-08

2007-06-08T17:55:59Z

I'm having this problem in yahoo 360 and it's driving me mad

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Comment from zeeky on 2007-06-01

2007-06-01T13:23:48Z

Same issues as others on myspace- I could use another host for photo's but it shows a red X in place of all my friends photo's, family- ALL the photo's that are uploaded into MySpace are just red X to me now. This has been a couple weeks. Started as one here & there- progressed to ALL, over the next couple weeks. I'm looking at canceling membership as it does me no good to be there if I can't see/share the photo's :( I have cleaned cache/temp, tried changing settings... tried EVERYTHING but nothing changes. I sent a note to MS and they sent an automated "answer"- explaining how to "add a friend" LOL That wasn't the problem! MySpace is the ONLY site I am having issues with & prior to the past few weeks- there were NO issues!? I just can't figure it out! I go to MS forum but it doesn't look like there are any other users experiencing this- yet a few here seem to be?

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Comment from cynthia gonzalez on 2007-05-24

2007-05-25T03:08:08Z

im having the same problem as lauren! i went from dial up to cable modem and wireless. My daughter uses her desk top and everything is fine. main problem is myspace the little red x appears instead of some of my friends pics. it also happens when my 3 yr old is on noggin. its like some images upload and some dont? HELP

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Comment from Miguel on 2007-05-04

2007-05-04T18:21:17Z

I have problem not pictures or image end some websits exaple sears.com just i can see the name of the odjet or articule and not red X just blank space but and other computer is find is not problem
I trated option,advance,and show picture istill same problem

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Comment from jake lucht on 2007-05-01

2007-05-01T22:48:38Z

ok so im having the red x problem only on myspace and its really starting to make me mad. do you know how to fix it?

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Comment from salah on 2007-04-26

2007-04-26T22:36:13Z

hi
i have the the same problems with some web pages, what is strange that on the same page with the X if u go to File => New => Window or Ctrl+N , the new window for the same web page comes with no X.

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Comment from Patrick Taylor on 2007-04-03

2007-04-03T21:57:33Z

Leo, I had a problem viewing photos at www.AutoTrader.com. All I got in the ads were the little boxes with red "xs" and spent two days trying to resolve the problem. Here's what fixed it for me:

> Click on the "Start" Button
> Click the "Run" option
> Type "cmd" to get into the command mode
> At the DOS prompt type in the following line (without the quotes...)
> "ipconfig /flushdns"

If the server you are connecting to on the other end has changed their file locations, or anything that affects domain name serving, you are probably still using the old address stored on your local computer. The flushdns command rids your local computer of dns information and forces it to go out and get the new, updated stuff!

This is what fixed my problem today! Wow! What a relief!

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Comment from Looie on 2007-03-29

2007-03-29T10:33:17Z

Problems with MySpace...

Get a free website, and upload your pictures to that, then link to them your profile. The reason you see red crosses is because MySpace is shit and is always getting hacked and DDoS'd. It probably loses your images, or if you link to Photobucket or ImageShack, they delete old photos to save bandwidth. Get a free website and host your own. I recommend www.phpnet.us

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Comment from Matt on 2007-03-03

2007-03-03T09:14:13Z

I Heve been into Internet Options then Advanced and clicked on the box next to Show Pictures but still nothing happens?

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Comment from COLIN on 2007-02-24

2007-02-25T05:31:57Z

Why don't pictures show when I visit websites? I PUT THE SHOW PICTURES ON BUT IT STILL DOESNT WORK

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Comment from lauren on 2007-02-18

2007-02-19T02:22:39Z

ok so im having the red x problem only on myspace and its really starting to make me mad. we just got highspeed today and thats when it started. when we had dial up it was fine. do you know how to fix it?

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Comment from rita on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T17:56:51Z

I have tried everything I can think of to take away the red x and put my pictures on my site where they belong. I know it has something to do with Fireworks design program but I'm not sure what to do. Can you help. Rita

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Comment from Brent on 2007-01-27

2007-01-27T23:43:26Z

thank you it worked

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Comment from satyendra pandey on 2007-01-09

2007-01-10T07:10:38Z

hi
while i visit few sites on IE7 i find few image links doesnt appear in or not apper properly. Staus bar shows that still few image r to be downloded and after some time still few images doesnt appear. This site works fine with IE6.
Leo can u plz help me

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Comment from tiff on 2007-01-05

2007-01-06T06:38:20Z

i think what is needed is that everyone needs to complain about the myspace red x and as for the other sites i have found that most of them work there is the odd occassion that they dont

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Comment from Chris on 2006-12-19

2006-12-20T05:10:51Z

When I go to http://sc.lugdunum.net:9130/ (the ONLY site this ocurrs at), all images will load on the FIRST page load only. Click a link, and images come up broken. The site worked for earlier versions of IE, it works for Firefox.

If I delete temp files, the site is good for one more page load, then only broken images. What gives? Why does IE7 not like my favorite site like this?

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Comment from Skeeter on 2006-12-19

2006-12-19T21:47:29Z

O.K., as for eBay.com and Dell.com, the image links are all routed through connections to the same IP block. Blocking this range may also restrict many other web sites that route connections through these servers. The block is: 64.212.198.0 - 64.212.198.255. Allowing connections to these IPs cures the problem, but my systems have detected illicit connections utilizing IPs within this block. GOOD LUCK !

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Comment from Skeeter on 2006-12-19

2006-12-19T21:21:43Z

Excuse please, should have read "you can not connect a Windows-based PC to the internet WITHOUT a hardware firewall, software firewall, and content inspection services. "

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Comment from Skeeter on 2006-12-19

2006-12-19T21:18:38Z

The problem appears to involve NORTON INTERNET SECURITY's "Personal FireWall". The same thing happened to me with eBay.com and Dell.com. Disabling Norton's firewall cures the problem, but presents questions, and, of course, you can not connect a Windows-based PC to the internet with hardware firewall, software firewall, and content inspection services.

Although I managed network security policies for a government network for 6 years, and an Internet provider for 12 years, I have not been able to resolve this broken image issue yet. It may be a new Windows viruses or malware. At first I thought is was because I have restricted thousands of IPs and IP blocks in my firewall and router (and even routers up stream) to help limit some small portion of the spyware and malewares embedded in Windows-based PCs and Windows applications, and the fact that some web applications pull content from source foreign to the root domain. But it's something else!

MicroSoft Windows has averaged over 1,400 new viruses and malwares per day over the last 6 years. Using a Windows-based PC has become virtually impossible, even for security experts supplied with millions of dollars of resources. Over 90% of your time on the system will be managing firewalls, making updates, and wasting entire days as I have with this issue. Thanks to MicroSoft, the Internet has become a kind of X@$&y*!

At last count, there were nearly 500,000 Windows-related viruses, spywares, and malware ... and those are only the “known” ones. If you own a Windows-based PC, you do not have a hardware firewall with both intrusion and containment capabilities, and most of your time is not spent managing security, your unit is most certainly infected to gills!

An example of MS stupidity and irresponsiblity was "Code Red" and "Code Blue". Sounds technical, but Code Red was a web virus that infected nearly 800,000 Windows IIS Web Servers in under a week, thanks to MicroSoft which put all the server administration in an open web directory by default. Just type in the domain/IP and path, and anyone on the Internet could have full and total control over the server. The number of open MicroSoft exploits has increased exponentially since about 8 years ago, and has not slowed down.

A BETTER SOLUTION IS TO BUY AN APPLE. To my knowledge, Macs have only suffered 1 harmless virus and 1 QuickTime issue (of course QuickTime, like Media Player, has always been spyware on Windows). You see, with Unix/Linux nothing can be installed without user intervention. That’s “real” security. Unix/Linux is opensource, Windows is a compiled “black box” ... D A R K !

I recently dusted off my 14 year old Mac IIci and showed by fellow IT staff, and they were astonished that such technology could have existed so many years before MS even had a GUI.

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Comment from Cym on 2006-12-11

2006-12-11T09:27:47Z

Thanks everyone, I thought maybe it was just me. The xxxx's started showing up on my page as well (MYSPACE). What is going on? They really need to fix it. Yeah it started happening to me around thankgiving. Thanks everybody!! I now know I'm not crazy

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Comment from Will on 2006-12-10

2006-12-11T06:44:33Z

For around 12 months now i've had the problem on myspace with only red x's showing in place of pictures. At first it wasnt all pictures- some still worked, others didnt. These days none of the pictures work at all, i tried following these steps, installed the new IE7 and even downloaded firefox to see if it was any different on there- it wasnt. And yet on any other computer i access myspace on it works perfectly. Ive emailed myspace about it, but they just said it was a problem with my computer, nothing to do with them.

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Comment from david on 2006-11-29

2006-11-30T00:37:40Z

I'm having the same problem on myspace. It started out of the blue tuesday or wednesday last week, Nov. 21 or nov.22. I can't view any pics, photos, either my own or any of my friends. I tried everything. I even updated to Internal explorer 7 and still no luck. It only on myspace on my home computer, I got back to work for thanksgiving holiday, and I had no problems with myspace on my work computer. I even try to comparing the settings on my work computer and my home computer and nothing. I emailed myspace twice, first time I got a response that they working on it and be patient, the second response was suggestions on how to download images, which isn't the problem. If any one can help yet me know

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Comment from emily on 2006-11-24

2006-11-24T19:53:16Z

omg. i have the same problem! but only on myspace. NO pictures will show up on myspace, no matter what picture. i tried everything you suggested and nothing helped, i dont know what to do!! please help :[

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Comment from skyz on 2006-11-13

2006-11-13T20:49:29Z

yeah. i have the same problem on some sites. I tried everything that you showed me but it doesnt work. I know its not the sites problem because my friend can acess it fine. Also, i tried with both browsers and it doesnt work. Please help me, its really bothering me

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Comment from T.J on 2006-11-11

2006-11-11T21:35:03Z

Ok I did that tool thing and nothing is working for me. The myspace pictures come and go so what is the actual problem. Please help me. Thanks

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Comment from B.Norman on 2006-11-07

2006-11-08T00:04:06Z

i have had a problem with two sites stmulligan.com and myspace on myspace all the pictures have the X in the corner and i have turned off the popup blocker and everything else you have suggested. on st mulligan the website comes up black and the only thing it says is the copyright and enable popups to view site in its entirety which i have turned off popup blocker
please help
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Comment from Joe on 2006-09-11

2006-09-11T22:05:25Z

I followed your advice in the column, and it didn't work. Pictures still show up as a red X. What should I do next ?

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Comment from Brandon on 2006-09-07

2006-09-08T01:17:49Z

The only pictures on any website that are not showing up are the ones on MySpace and this only occurs on my laptop. They just stopped showing up out of the blue. Pictures show up on my laptop on every other site except MySpace....plz help me.

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Comment from JC on 2006-08-18

2006-08-18T14:29:23Z

I also uninstalled the ad-blocker but that didn't help . What's the problem?

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Comment from kathy on 2006-08-17

2006-08-18T01:15:15Z

i go on almost every website and the pictures dont even show. on some myspace pictures the red x comes on but all the others stay blank. Also I have checked the tool thing and it didnt work. help me plz !!

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Comment from Debbi on 2006-06-22

2006-06-22T08:04:26Z

My pictures were just fine until I accidentally downloaded the FunWebProducts smileys. Now I get a mix of pictures and Red X placeholders. However, I discovered something tonight. If the picture is located on a url that has capital letters in it, it shows a red X. If a picture is all lower case, it shows up fine. Does this make sense? For instance, I see a red X for this picture at this url: http://nicolekidmanunited.com/NicoleKidmanTV/Channel10/Wedding/TheWeddingGuestsArriveCh10News21June2006a0001.jpg

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Comment from musicbrain007 on 2006-04-14

2006-04-14T10:09:01Z

Hey Leo,
I had System Mechanic5 (IOLO) installed for trial use, uninstalled it and removed the settings from the register edit. After doing so, I no longer get images to show up and none of the suggestions you mentioned above worked.

Can there be something I can do to repair?

Thanks,
musicbrain007

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Comment from Scott Dicko on 2006-03-20

2006-03-20T15:21:32Z

I have 2 meg broadband i have checked Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, and then in the Multimedia section of the list, there's an item Show Pictures.
this is on but i still wait and get no picture.
Also i cannot view movie trailers even though I have flash player 8 what do you suggest?
many thanks

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Comment from Jeff on 2006-01-04

2006-01-05T03:07:53Z

Some pics show up others don't on websites , This just all of a sudden started, on my computer at work they all show up. Any Ideas?

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Comment from Darlene on 2005-12-30

2005-12-31T05:44:37Z

This might help someone. I spent the last week trying to get rid of red x's. I tried all of the suggestions, nothing worked. I was ready to reinstall windows. This evening I turned off my turbo booster that comes with my internet provider and the red x's went away. I turned it back on and they came back, so it's off for now. Hope this is of use to someone.

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Comment from Sonya on 2005-12-05

2005-12-06T04:44:04Z

This was really helpful advise. My computer would not show any pictures on my space.com or a lot of the apparel websites, or delta.com. I adjusted my google adblocker & now my pictures show!

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Comment from vickie on 2005-12-03

2005-12-03T08:08:43Z

I know what you mean by that...in my case my computer always was able to open pictures in the website www.picture.com....and then there is the puzzle contest on that page...I click it and it should take me to a page that is a picture puzzle..like I said unfortunately when I get on that puzzle page the picture is not there and the little red x is....I dont know the email address to contact picture.com or I would ask them if there is a glitch in their system...I have norton antivirus and dont know how to check if its the reason..when I bring it up I only get info for norton 2003 and 2004----I have norton 2005.....also I have windows xp professional with the service pack 2....and also the new windows firewall and security system with microsoft antispyware...if you can let me know if any of these items might be aproblem...and how I can solve this so I can go into the picture puzzle I dearly love to do ...thank you for your help ahead of time...vickie cloud

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Comment from Bill on 2005-10-21

2005-10-21T16:05:45Z

Hi,

I fixed it. I had to change the image locations.

Thanks,

Bill

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Comment from Bill on 2005-10-21

2005-10-21T15:37:28Z

Hello,

I created a menu button bar for my website. It
works and shows up in IE and Netscape but not
Firefox. Here is link to the page.
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/billwccg/page6.html

It is the buttons with the years 1960-1968 on the
bottom.

Thank you.

Bill

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Comment from topporsche on 2005-09-30

2005-09-30T13:30:51Z

I occasionally have the same 'red square, green triangle and blue circle problem as Tom (Sep 27'05) and Heather (June 24'05), and have even found this on loading someone's instruction manual CD. Problem is unresolved by Tony's suggestion (July 1'05). Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated. I was thinking that it was merely indicating that to read it I needed a special programme from somewhere.....

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Comment from Tom on 2005-09-27

2005-09-28T01:07:44Z

Pictures are blocked along with on line checking account statements and other documents.
I get a blank white screen with a little box in the upper left corner with a red square, blue triangle, and green circle. What's happening?

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Comment from tony on 2005-09-17

2005-09-17T12:30:58Z

hi there,

i was wondering if you could help me ,when i open my ebook it is in pdf format i get little red outline squares where the images should be ,do you know what the problem could be?

your help would be much appreciated

thanks

tony

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Comment from Willi on 2005-09-10

2005-09-11T06:52:11Z

Others can see the pics on this particular site, it's a yahoo group, but I get red x's, I have show pictures ticked off in Advance and can see pics on other sites like Flickr, any answer to this question??? Thanks

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Comment from Van on 2005-07-31

2005-08-01T00:06:49Z

My issue is when I forward an e-mail, the pictures in the e-mail are only readable by half of my friends. The same e-mail sent from someone else is legible by all my friends. What is my PC or MSN (MSN e-mail) doing to the pictures? Thanks

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Comment from Michele on 2005-07-18

2005-07-19T04:50:50Z

I started having this problem on msn messageboards this week right after I had to reinstall McAfee. Seems quite a few other posters on the board started having the same problem.

I had an online chat with a Mcafee technician and solved the problem. It is in the "privacy service program." When you are signed on as the Mcafee administrator, right click on the little Mcafee "M" icon on the bottom right of your screen, then go to "privacy service," then "options." Click on the "block ads" tab, then uncheck "block ads on this computer."

I did this and now can see the photos. Apparently the privacy service was reading some photos as being ads. Of course, if you start getting unwanted ads, you will have to enable the "block ads" function when you are not trying to view photos.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-07-09

2005-07-09T15:28:05Z

It sounds like what happens to me when I have mixed upper and lower case filenames, and am hosting on a Linux server. Under Windows, "PiCtUrE.jPg" is the same as "picture.jpg". Under Linux (and most other operating systems, for that matter) it is not.

So that would be one thing to look into.

The other is the use of "\" versus "/" as directory separators. http://site/dir/filename.jpg and http:\\site\dir\filename.jpg may, or may not work on different systems. The correct way is to use forward-slash "/" on the internet. Backslash "\" can sometimes work, and sometimes confuse, depending on the systems and browsers involved.

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Comment from Mich on 2005-07-09

2005-07-09T07:24:10Z

I have a problem with my images. I made a website and the images (banners/buttons) are not loading...I get the RED X. The thing is, my html code is correct, AND when I view the webpage on a mac computer the images loads fine (images and all), however when I view it on a PC, the images are red X's. I thought there was a problem with the folders, but I uploaded this other image (3 months ago) in that same folder and viewed it online (PC) and the image was fine. I'm confused...

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Comment from tony on 2005-07-01

2005-07-01T17:24:40Z

Ok, heres what i did. Go on your system and find a file called HOST, windows/system32/drivers.etc. Open it using notpad, then do a search and find com.com and delete only ones that are com.com. Then do another search for the site that is not showing picturs. Delete that site, it may be in there a couple times. After that, save the file, close your IE explorer or firefox, then reopen and goto the site. Now the pictures should be there

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