Help. ie6 not displaying images offline.

[tantalus]

Hi can anyone point me in the right direction.

I need to get ie 6 to display images for pages on hard drive. Its giving me the dreaded placeholder instead.

This is the version number:

6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633

Its new machine and as hard as I have tried I cannot seem to reinstall ie6.

Kidding XP into thinking its not there does'nt work (Data Type: DWORD // Value Name: IsInstalled
Setting for Value Data: Change the Value from 1 to 0) I still get "setup has detected a newer version of internet explorer on this system."

Can Anyone point me in the right direction.

(As far as I know there is no problem with online content)

ThanX

[tedster]

What form is the path to the image? If it begins with a slash like this - "/img/picture.jpg" - then it won't work locally because it's pointing to the root.

If it's not the path, then you have something more like the bug that I have suffered with for over a year. And a complete re-format didn't even fix it for me. I suspect a software conflict but have never pinned it down.

[tantalus]

Thanks Tedster

No the image path is correct

Its a real pain as I bought the machine to primarily design on and this does not help.

I know others have had this problem with certain sites and i do begin to formulate cospiracy theroies with Micro$oft taking away functionality as they did with PWS.

I wondered If I downloaded IE6 from browsers.evolt.org. and installed it from hard drive, whether this would make any difference?

[kaled]

1) Install another browser (FF or Opera) and see if the problem persists with these too. If yes, then the problem is not with IE.
2) Check IE advanced properties. Look under Multimedia and toggle the relevant settings clicking OK after each change.
Also check remaining advanced settings appear sensible.
Also reduce security settings to minimum temporarily - this can be tricky with local sites.
Also try viewing site through a local share such as
\\yourcomputer\c$\website\index.html
3) Check which image types are affected - this may yield a clue.
4) If you have firewall or antivirus software installed, disable.
5) If you have any other software running that is not vital, close it (e.g. funny video stuff or color correction rubbish)

Kaled.

[tantalus]

Thanks Kaled.

But no go. Both Gifs & jpg are affected, most of the other stuff I had already done but I went through it again.

Any opinions on downloading IE6 from browsers.evolt.org or any other ideas?

Would be much appreciated.

[tedster]

Sure, it's worth a try. Unfortunately with IE you can't really "uninstall" first, and troubles often tend to stick around. but it's not that big a time investment to give it a shot.

You might also try installing a second version of IE, as outlined in this thread:
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