Images not showing up in broswers. Help!

[DISLEX]

Okay, I am lost. I have ran out of ideas..

Box: Dell Dim. L733r Win 98 SE w/ all criticle updates.
Browser: IE & Firefox

I have ran Ad-Aware & Spybot. It did have a ton of spy/adware. I removed all.
I have ran Hijack this and removed the things not needed.
I have cleaned out all startup files. I even did so through msconfig.
I ran Avast virus scan and removed all virii.
I have played around with IE's setting.
I have played around with Firefox's setting.
IE was updated during Winows updates.
I have ran PurgeIE
I have ran PurgeFox.
I have repaired the registry with TweakNow Reg. Cleaner.
I have went to Start, Run, and ran the SFC.


Everything about the computer seems to be working fine other than this. I have looked all over the net and have came up empty handed. I've includded a screen shot. I am about to go crazy. It seems like this would be so easy to fix... Grr!

[nihil]

With the greatest respect, might I suggest that you forgot to mention your problem?

[DISLEX]

Images not showing up in broswers. Help!

[ZT3000]

Popup blockers and some installed toolbars might have options that prevent the pictures from displaying.

I'm posting a .png shot of my IE settings, perhaps you can mimic them on your system. Shutdown IE and reboot, just to be sure.

Hope this helps.

[Edit: Where did my attached file go?]

Since I cannot seem to post a file, here is a text version then.

A "®" indicates a checkmark, otherwise no checkmark.

Accessibility
Always expand ALT text for images
® Move system caret with focus/selection changes

Browsing
® Always send URLs as UTF-8 (requires restart)
Automatically check for Internet Explorer updates
® Close unused folders in History and Favorites (requires restart)
® Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)
® Disable Script Debugging (Other)
Display a notification about every script error
Enable folder view for FTP sites
Enable Install On Demand (Internet Explorer)
Enable Install On Demand (Other)
Enable offline items to be synchronized on a schedule
Enable page transitions
Enable Personalized Favorites Menu
® Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart)
® Enable visual styles on buttons and controls in web pages
Force offscreen compositing even under Terminal Server (requires restart)
® Notify when downloads complete
® Reuse windows for launching shortcuts
Show friendly HTTP error messages
Show friendly URLs
® Show Go button in Address bar
Underline links
® Always
Hover
Never
Use inline AutoComplete
® Use Passive FTP (for firewall and DSL modem compatibility)
Use smooth scrolling

HTTP 1.1 settings
® Use HTTP 1.1
Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections

Java (Sun)
® Use Java 2 v1.4.2_05 for <applet> (requires restart)

Microsoft VM
Java console enabled (requires restart)
Java logging enabled
® JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled (requires restart)

Multimedia
® Enable Automatic Image Resizing
® Enable Image Toolbar (requires restart)
Play animations in web pages
® Play sounds in web pages
® Play videos in web pages
Show image download placeholders
® Show pictures
® Smart image dithering

Printing

Print background colors and images

Search from the Address bar

When searching
Display results, and go to the most likely site
® Do not search from the Address bar
Just display the results in the main window
Just go to the most likely site

Security
Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer
Allow active content to run in files on My Computer
Allow software to run or install even if the signature is invalid
® Check for publisher's certificate revocation
Check for server certificate revocation (requires restart)
® Check for signatures on downloaded programs
Do not save encrypted pages to disk
® Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed
® Enable Integrated Windows Authentication (requires restart)
Enable Profile Assistant
® Use SSL 2.0
® Use SSL 3.0
Use TLS 1.0
® Warn about invalid site certificates
Warn if changing between secure and not secure mode
® Warn if forms submittal is being redirected

[nihil]

Ah!...................I did not spot that you stated your problem in the thread title...........sorry about that.........

It sounds like a file associations problem?............I guess that you can open images normally (ones that are saved on your HDD)?

ZT3000's advice is good, and you should try that..............what is sort of confusing me is that you imply that this is not just one browser?

That suggests to me that the problem is with your system settings rather than those of the individual browser.

If you search for .jpg, .bmp, and .gif files and try to open them, what does it try to use?

A total cheat solution (I hope):

http://www.irfanview.com/

Install it and allow it to look at all media...........

Cheers