In searching for this problem I came across a post from July (117807) with EXACTLY the problem I have experienced. Unfortunately there was no solution found - does anyone know if a fix was found for this? The symptoms:- IE6 under Win 98se suddenly stopped showing gifs in pages on my local hard drive, only displaying the place marker with an x in the box. jpegs are fine and pages on the Internet are fine, it's only pages on my C: drive that are affected. I had already tried everything suggested in the post - IE is set to show pictures, file associations are OK, I've run a repair on IE6. I've tried "Open with" on a gif file on my HDD, opening it with IE, and just get a box with an x. I installed Netscape 7 as an alternative browser to test web pages I'm developing, and suspect this is behind it, but I can't see how. Netscape displays pages on the C:drive fine, though, while IE won't show the gifs. (Only gifs are affected, jpegs are OK). Any ideas? Thanks

Callan, I'm having the same problem and no solution as well.(see post 130073) Are you able to get the full download on occassion? For reasons unknown to me mine will suddenly load the gifs which is usually only once a day. Really confusing and has me stumped.

It only started a couple of days ago, and has consistently refused to display local gifs. Your post, 130073, was very interesting, with some ideas I hadn't tried, but then again, you've tried them and they didn't work! I've still got the idea that installing Netscape had something to do with it - the Java suggestion might be worth investigating, as Netscape obviously doesn't use the Microsoft JVM, but then why should that affect a gif image? Right-clicking on the image placeholder gives a path but no image information, so it's something to do with finding the file, not merely displaying it. The path starts file///c:/ so maybe it's something to do with a drive letter in the URL. (I'm clutching at straws here...). But why just gifs and not jpegs? Still confused, but at least I'm not alone!

I had this problem last week but fortunately just doing a repair on ie did the trick. I did run accross this site: Tek-Tips where lots of folks experienced the same loss of gifs/jpgs and offered multiple solutions.Does not appear to be 'one size fits all". Hope this helps...............ck

Callan, I had the problem prior to Netscape. I tried an install of Netscape to see if made a difference, however, it did not. Thanks CK for the site will do some research there. I tried the I.E. repair to no avail.

Thanks CK - I'm not sure if that helps or makes me more depressed, looking at all the suggestions which have been tried and failed! (Especially when one of the posts points out yet another forum with a post 219 entries long on this subject)! I'll give some of them a try, though.

OK guys, here goes - double-checking the associations, I went into the file types and checked that there was an entry for gifs under Paint Shop Pro. The first entry was for jpeg, so I checked the "Content Type (MIME)" list, scrolled to gif and OKd. Bingo! Gifs again displayed, even on local pages. But.... (wait for it).... jpegs stopped working! Did the same procedure for jpegs and all now seems to work. Whether it will still work tomorrow remains to be seen. Judging by the posts I've looked at so far, it's an inconsisent but fairly widespread problem. Anyway, thanks for your help, both. It's sorted for just now, but I've got the feeling I haven't heard the last of this....