A little computer housekeeping help required

[Fletcher]

http://www.gizmag.com

I have a problem that someone may be able to assist me with - I'm not particularly savvy with computers so any help would be appreciated.

When I load this site from my favorites it usually has lots of pictures of interesting technological or mechanical things of interest - lately no pictures will load - just text & small boxes where the pics would have been with a cross in the left top corner - of course the banner advertising loads with its pictures & video's etc *sigh* - well, I've right clicked my mouse to see if there was a way to 'allow' the pics but nothing [unlike emails where you can allow pics thru with a right click] & it's getting frustrating.

Other sites seem fine.

Ideas welcome ???

P.S. I'm running vista & IE8.

[DrWhat]

Download Mozilla Firefox and you will solve all your problems. You can add adblocker pro too so no more ads!

I refuse to use IE unless the odd program wont work on the browser (such as some apple stuff)

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

[daxwc]

Fletcher:

lately no pictures will load - just text & small boxes where the pics would have been with a cross in the left top corner

You are lucky Fletcher, my laptop mixes all the pics up with different sites. You don't realize how sight oriented we are till this happens, its like a brain fitness program.

[Mark]

Hi Fletcher

Two PC's here, one running WinXP Media Center (disabled) with Firefox v3.5.7 as default and Internet Explorer 8 as secondary, the other is running WinXP Home Edition with FireFox and Internet Explorer 6.
That website loads no problem in all configurations.

Try this: Go into Internet Options (via Control Panel or Tools tab on IE menu bar);
Click the Security tab - click each of the 'Zones" in the box at the top and set each one to Default (if they are set to a Custom level).
Click the Privacy tab - Set that to Default.
Then click the Advanced tab - Scroll down to Multimedia and clear the check-box at 'Show image download placeholders'.
Click 'Apply', then 'OK'.
Close Internet Explorer, restart it, and try the website again.

It may work, it may not. I hope it does.

[Fletcher]

Thanks guys for the support & replies, especially you Mark - most helpful & fixed the problem in an easy way I could follow :7)

I had installed firefox mozilla months & months ago on Scott's recommendation here - but never liked using it initially - so today I just made the change [thx dr, you reminded me] & it has got rid of a few other formatting but nevertheless annoying little things I didn't like about IE but was too lazy to do anything about [creatures of habit].

It's loading up way faster also which is a big bonus.

[Mark]

Yep, "annoying little things I didn't like about IE" and the security issues w/IE were the main reasons I switched to Firefox.

Like you, I had hesitated for a while, then when I did make the switch, I thought, "OK, should have done this a long time ago."

I still use IE occasionally, but only for the odd website like DrWhat says. That and because I prefer to download Windows updates manually, so I can chose which "bloat" not to add to my system.

Anyway, glad to help when I can. :)

[rlortie]

I recently picked up a Trojan which I swear was downloaded from;
Microsoft .NET Framework.

Already being an avid Mozilla Firefox user I dumped everything with MS in its lable. I found that I had both IE 7and 8 on my machine plus two versions of Microsoft "Office" which screwed up my IP profile templates in "Outlook"

Fletcher, You will find Firefox a breeze once you get use to it. The toolbar bookmarks make it easy to open as many sites as you wish and the downloader in "tools' allows you to retain downloads.

If you like a little music while your putten! down load their "last~Fm station. build your own music library. I also recomend the weather plug in they offer.

Ralph

[DrWhat]

To bookmark something, just click once (or even twice if you want to add more tags/descriptions) on the star symbol to the right of the url address.

To go to an address that is bookmarked, just start typing say "bess" in the url pane and the site will come up automatically in a drop-down.

To install ad-blocker, go to TOOLS, ADD ONS, GET ADD ONS, TYPE "AD BLOCKER" in the small search pane etc etc and hey presto!