IE does not download pics

[What?]

I have used IE for years, without much problem. However, about a week ago, it stopped downloading pictures. Tough to browse ebay when you can't get the pics. I was using ie 6 at the time, tried downloading ie7, with no change. I then uninstalled ie7 and went back to ie 6. Checked the advance tab to make sure that "show pictures" was checked, and it is. All I get are the little red x's. Even when I right click the x and choose "show picture" I get nothing. Firefox continues to download pics ok.

Any suggestions?

[renegade600]

try deleting the files in your temporary internet folder.

[What?]

Thanks for the suggestion. There weren't many files in the temporary folder, but I tried deleting them anyway. No change.

[giradman]

Agree w/ Dan that when these problems arise, I first try to really 'clean-up' IE by deleting temp files, history, & cookies (hate to lose some of the latter); you might want to visit MS Support (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283807) to see if any of the suggestions listed there are of help; if not, please report back - good luck!

[nsl]

stick with mozilla firefox. IE always having alot of problems..

[giradman]

stick with mozilla firefox. IE always having alot of problems..

The OP states that Firefox is still able to download images; but, it can be amazing (and frustrating) how these various Web browsers on the same machine can function or malfunction differently - :hmm: