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terry6680

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Picture viewing problems on the net?
« on: February 01, 2007, 11:15:08 AM »
Guys, iv reached the end of my knowledge to try and fix my problem, for some reason my laptop, although completely up to date with all the latest fixs from microsoft, with IE 7 etc blah blah blah, will not allow me to see the majority of pictures/thumbnails of cars on the autotrader.com website etc, out of maybe 10 hits, only one thumbnail will display, and when i try and enlarge the picture it comes back as a blank image, not even a red cross!? I thought it might be some sort of pop up blocker stopping it from displaying but iv turned everything off, and still nothing, so i thought it might be a problem with IE7 so i downloaded Firefox, still the same problem, thought it might be a problem with thier site, so i tested it on my mates computer and all the pictures are displaying fine!  Also i think its effecting my "myspace" profile as there is an "upload" feature which is missing from a page which is stopping me from uploading videos, any ideas or people that have had the same problem?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2007, 11:26:11 AM »
What version of Windows is this?
What protection do you have?
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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2007, 01:53:42 AM »
Hiya,

I have Windows XP media version

I have McAfee Security Centre

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2007, 02:42:54 AM »
kittu . . . what?
Either make a relevant reply or don't post.
@ terry - do you have any spyware protection?
Have you noticed any other problems recently?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2007, 09:59:52 AM »
Yeah i have actually, when im trying to upload a video onto myspace profile, there is an "upload video" option that should appear but it doesnt, on the properties its like a html document so im thinking that my laptop is having problems displaying certain html items?  as for spyware protection, cant quite remember what i have, i dont think i have that much, i have windows defender and what ever protection is part of McAfee securty centre?
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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2007, 10:19:23 AM »
Could be some sort of html problem.
It may be caused my malware.
Try using Spybot and Ad-Aware SE as well.
Download, install, update and run them, and fix any problems found.
Does the problem still occur?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2007, 08:16:06 AM »
ok, well iv installed the free version of spyware doctor and run it, found and imunised everything it found and it hasnt made any difference, as for the other link you gave, i cant find a free download on that site so it doesnt look like spyware........?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2007, 08:23:51 AM »
The correct link to download Adaware personal is here.
Sorry about that.
Did you download Spybot S&D?
You need to update it and then click check for problems.

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2007, 08:48:16 AM »
thanks ill give that one a go aswell, and yes i did update it and then did the search so its the most up to date it can be. Ill let you know how the other one goes.

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2007, 08:51:03 AM »
OK, let us know how it goes.
Incidentally, did Spybot find any problems?
Can you remember any?
If so, could you list them?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2007, 10:14:32 AM »
right, i have run a scan with ad aware and it found some various low risk threats i.e. cookie related stuff and i have quarantined/deleted everything it has found, just as i did with spybot (which it also found various hits) but i cannot recall any of the names, but it is still not showing the missing pictures from the 2 sites i have been talking about!? Maybe one of these files has left some damage that these applications havent fixed?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2007, 10:20:05 AM »
The files may have left some problems but Spybot and Adaware should clean them up.
I went on the Autotrader site and it works fine for me, can't say anything about Myspace because I don't use it.
Try starting Firefox in safe mode - "Start --> programs --> Mozilla Firefox --> Mozilla Firefox - Safe Mode" - and see if you can see it properly now.
Incidentally, are you experiencing problems viewing other html files?
Also, what happens if you right click on the space where the pictures should be - does the right context menu come up, i.e. a picture one?
And what shows if you select properties?

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2007, 02:01:57 PM »
Iv started Firefox in safe mode, hasnt made any difference, i havent had any other problems viewing other files as far as im aware but theres only a small amount of sites i visit on a regular occasion to actually notice the problem, when i click on the area where the "upload" feature should be on myspace profile, there is nothing, no picture 1 or anything and when i click on properties, all i get is Miscellanious Properties : Text Language: English.

As for the Autotrader website, when i get my hitlist back of the cars i have selected to search on, the majority of  initial thumbnails do not appear at all, bar the occasional one,  not sure if this is to do with the format they may be saved in, but for the ones that do display, i can right click and i get the options to View Image, Copy Image, Save Link etc etc, but they appear very small, but for the rest of them which haven't displayed, if i go into the actual advert, lets say which apparently have 6 pictures, perhaps one maybe two tiny thumbnail pictures by the advert, if i left click on any of them to try and enlarge them, it will just reopen the advert in another tab , NO PICTURE?! Very strange, hope you followed all that ok?!

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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2007, 06:18:54 AM »
Terry, do you have AOL by any chance?  It sometimes has a tendency to make certain pictures not work in browsers.  Either way, it might not hurt to try deleting your temporary internet files and then restarting your browser.  Just a suggestion.
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Re: Picture viewing problems on the net?
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2007, 03:45:00 PM »
Hey, iv found something out or figured something, if i delete all of my temp internet files and then run IE7 "without add-ons" and then go into the Autotrader website, it seems to display everything fine for the first vehicle that i view, all normal size thumbnails and i can enlarge the pictures and everything yay  ; )  ..... but then after i leave that advert and go to the next one it goes back to its normal crappy way!? The only way to get it displaying properly again is to repeat the above process, but it only works for the first one, gotta be an "add on" problem or an temp file problem?   Figure that one out if you can   ; S
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