Missing Images mystery.

[Crispy]

Hi all, I'm stumped on this one. Any ideas please?

My wife's computer (PC running XPHome) has today stopped showing all the usual images/logos etc. All that shows is that little square suggesting a graphic is missing. It was fine when she went to bed last night and she has tried several restarts.

I checked all the usual things including virus check and spybot etc. but nothing obvious came up, I also checked the device manager but all hardware showed as functioning correctly.

After several tries and restarts, I found that right clicking the little square gave the choice of showing picture. I clicked that and the photo or graphic appeared. That seems to work in all cases apart from the wallpaper, which doesn't give that option when clicked.

Thanks for any help,
Chris P.

[EzyStvy]

Where/what application are the images missing from?

[Crispy]

Thanks for responding on this. I thought pretty much everywhere was affected but apart from Internet pages and the wallpaper, graphics seem ok.

Chris P

[LeftyAce]

So no images, including wallpaper, are being displayed unless you click and select 'display image'?

Have you run virus and spyware scans?

[Crispy]

Thanks Lefty but all scans done. Normal photos display just fine on the PC (apart from the one set as wallpaper) It's mainly on IE pages that graphics, both photo's and logos don't appear, just that damn little box.

Regards
Chris P.

[shadowpr]

in internet explorere, go to tools, then internet options.

go to advanced and scrool down to multimedia, and make sure that the box for dispay pictures is checked.

[Crispy]

Thanks for that shadowpr, it worked a treat, and my wife is a happy bunny

I can't believe I didn't spot that. I also can't work out how two boxes in that area became unchecked. It seems so strange that it was all fine until this morning

I think that the missing wallpaper threw me, and I still can't work out why an IE option should disable a picture stored on her computer.

We've both earned a few brownie points today. Thanks again,

Chris P.

[shadowpr]

glad i could help.

i've had that happen to me before a while back, and remember it driving me crazy too.

[LeftyAce]

Interesting fix!

If she set the wallpaper by right-clicking on an image in her web browser and selecting 'set as background' that might explain why the IE options affected the wallpaper. The file would be stored in an IE folder somewhere.

[Crispy]

Hi again LA.. I was thinking along similar lines, but it turns out to have been selected by using the browse button in the Display panel and using a jpg that she has on her machine. The wonders of Windows!

Regards,
Chris P.

[LeftyAce]

Wow. Well, I just keep on learning, I suppose.