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[jjrizzo]

Ok, I've just swithced to DSL from a dial-up modem, using I.E.6 and Windows98. Now when I click on a web page or link half the time I get the red X in the boxes instead of pictures, however, I've noticed that if I right click on the page and get the menu with encoding on it I see that the Western Euoropean ISO is checked and not Western Euoropean Windows. When I check the Windows the page reloads just fine without the red X's. So the question is why won't it stay on Western Euoropean Windows? Why does it keep bouncing back to that ISO? And what is ISO anyway. Can I check something somewhere to keep it from reverting to that ISO? Any help will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance, Joseph Rydzy

[ErnieK]

JJ
Have you tried going to View and scroll down to Encoding and select from there. close IE down and then re-open and see what happens

[jjrizzo]

Tried that and it doesn't work. On that menu it has unicode (UTF-8) and it keeps reverting back to that instead of Windows!

[ski]

Try an IE repair in System Information/Tools.

[jjrizzo]

Ok, just tried it and that didn't do it either. Never had the problem until switching to DSL and it came with the Yahoo home page crap but I've swithced everything back to IE and everything working fine except that! Thanks

[david eaton]

Originally posted by jjrizzo
...it came with the Yahoo home page crap...

I wonder what else was installed at the same time? As a check, could you download Hijack This, from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip , unzip and run it, and post a log here?

David

[jjrizzo]

Ok I have spybot and ran it already and it found some advertising cookies but I didn't see anything that might do this. Of course I destoyed all that was detected and it did not change anything!

[david eaton]

Well, spybot is a good program, but Hijack this is a useful diagnostic tool, that might well show up things that Spybot ignores.

[PrntRhd]

Have you tried going to View>Encoding>Western European (Windows)?

[jjrizzo]

Yes tried that!:confused:

[PrntRhd]

Go to Add/Remove programs,
delete IE6,
it should give you options to delete or repair IE6,
Select repair.

This might fix it. :D

[Paul Komski]

Note that in some cases you may also be able to resolve this problem by manually editing the registry. For example, if the28591 String value is missing from the following registry key, a Web page that is encoded for the Western European (ISO) code page might not display any images:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Nls\CodePage

The value for this registry key should be set to the name of the appropriate code page file in your Windows\System or Windows\System32 folder. For the Western European (ISO) code page, this value should be either Cp_28591.nls (Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition) or C_28591.NLS (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP).

Taken from:- "Pictures Are Not Displayed on Web Sites in Internet Explorer" (MSKB 283807) (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B283807)

Which was found in this quite interesting thread (http://www.tek-tips.com/gpviewthread.cfm/qid/602478/pid/608/lev2/67/lev3/74)