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Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi DRA.. Somehow I've changed the picture preview status when I'm browsing files in my picture folder. It will say generating preview, but then nothing. I have to go up to 'file' and then 'quick view' to see it. It used to come up on the left side of the window.
Any suggestions?

Win98, IE 6


Thank you!!

ETA: Also, when I deleted my AT&T dial up I lost my ad block protection. I found Ad Shield which is what I think they offered.. anything good or bad about them? It helped the problem (banner ads) I was having earlier today..

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mygetaway: There are some tips and files to patch your registry that should restore the preview for all images on your system. Click here and look through the top 3 tips on Thumbnails to see which is right for you. Then download the zip file with the appropriate patch from the link on the left. You'll need to be able to open a .zip file. If you don't already have Winzip, go to Winzip.com and download the latest version.

I'm not familiar with Ad Shield as I use Netscape's built-in popup blocker without any trouble.

Hope this helps.

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra.. I don't know if it was that, or something I did in folder options.. but it's working now...
Thank You!

Ocean_islands
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I went to get some free animated gifs because I was going to update my website.

When I right-click on the gifs it comes up as a '.bmp' extension file and I cannot choose another format. Needless to say it no longer is an animated gif file. Do I have a virus or do I need to select something different in My Computer?

Thanks for any help.... :-)

Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
what OS are you using OI?

Ocean_islands
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Windows XP

Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't have xp, let me see if I can ask someone here.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
O_I: In internet explorer, the common resolution to images saving as bmp is to clear your cache/temporary internet files and restart your browser. I'm not sure why this is the recommended fix, but it's worked for many people.

To do this, click on 'Tools - Internet Options' then click on 'Delete Files' - another window opens, check the box for '..offline files..' then click 'Ok' and 'Ok' to close. Finally, close Internet Explorer then start it again.

Hope this helps.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
FYI: Here is the article from Microsoft's Knowledgebase about this:

Internet Explorer Saves Images As Bitmaps (.bmp Files)

Ocean_islands
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It worked! Thanks so much you guys are the bestest.

Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 2:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Glad I previewed before I posted, but yeah, What Draheid said :-)

Curious1
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 12:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Help! LOL my dh reformatted our computer weeks ago and I've been living without volume all this time....something about the right driver not being installed (well possibly that's the problem anyway). He has no time to do this so if I want it done I'm going to have to figure it out myself...which is sort of like brain surgery for me! Anyone care to help me out or walk me through it? I could met you chat or something...just e-mail me! THANKS!

Curious1
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow fixed already! What can i say our Mr. Draheid is a genius! Thanks Dra!

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 9:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Draheid, I didn't realize my Internet Explorer was exhibiting the bitmap issue. It was. Now it's fixed. Thanks!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 10:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Could be a new record for Draheid, lol.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 9:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra, my hero. I have a random question about my IE experience. I'm using 6.0.

I am having some issues with viewing certain websites -- particularly images on shopping sites, or dynamic navigation bars (like that at the top of tvguide.com -- can't make that one work for me).

When I reach these sites (and cannot view the images or cannot make the nav bar work), my browser always shows "Applet FCPred started" in the lower left of the window.

Do you know what this means, or what the problem might be? I've tried for weeks to figure it out myself, but can't seem to.

My dh's PC is having the same issue -- since we're on the same network, I thought for a while that perhaps it was due to an overactive security setting or firewall or something, but I hooked up my laptop to our network and it works fine on these sites -- so I think it's obviously in my desktop's IE setup ... Java ... something...?!

Any ideas? Thanks!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee_in_ca: The navigation bar at TVGuide.com is a shockwave flash component and requires the latest Macromedia player (ver 7) to work. You might want to try re-installing this plugin on your browser and see if that helps. Macromedia.com

Let me know if this helps.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra -- Thanks, but done it. I've got version 7.0.19. And I've reinstalled it just to be sure, too.

Thanks, though!

(I'll give you another example of a site that's not loading/working properly -- at Aerosoles.com, if you click on 'What's new,' and then 'shop all what's new,' I cannot view the photos above the text links for each product.)

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee: I don't see anything that would prevent you from seeing the images there. Here is a link to one of them, directly from the site and one posted on the board:
<Removed by (22)>

Are you able to see both images?

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes I am seeing them here, but when I go to that site, I cannot. Weird, isn't it?! I searched around Microsoft's IE site for a long while ... did google searches ... reinstalled plug-ins ...

One thing I just tried that is interesting -- I installed Netscape to see if it did the same thing (fully expecing that Netscape would work fine) -- and I surprisingly had the same problem!

I'm at a loss... Don't worry about it too much, Dra... I just thought maybe you might know something I don't :-)

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i have that problem on one of my work computers it is the one running Norton's Internet Security. it blocks all of the web streams also. i have to disable it to get it to view some sites. and some i give up on. one of these days i'm going to remove the whole dang program. if i need something i can't get at, i usually go use another computer. since it holds all of my company's files - i just let that computer be!

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Draheid, I have a question about my home built computer. Ever since I replaced the power supply with a 550 watt model (Antec) and upgraded my processor to a 3.4 Ghz chip (Intel Northwood), my computer won't shut down. I go to the turn off computer in the start menu, select shut down, the computer shuts down like it should (logging me out etc.) and then it turns off, then back on and starts up again.

I've checked my BIOS settings (Intel 875PBZ motherboard) and am unable to find any setting that's enabled that would cause this behavior. No wake from LAN, etc.

Any suggestions would be most welcome. :-)

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LANDI!!! You sent me in the right direction and I've solved the problem!

I have Norton Systemworks and Norton Anti-Spam. I started looking at those programs, and turned off "Ad Blocking" in Anti-Spam and it fixed the problem.

Thank you! (Not sure why Ad Blocking would block the functionality of the TV Guide flash nav bar, but it did).

Again, thanks! And thanks Dra for helping too

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 4:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i'm so glad i could help! at home i have mcafee, and i don't have nearly the problems i do at work!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 8:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wendo: Ok, after reviewing the documentation for your motherboard, I found one setting that I see has been the cause of your situation for others, and for no readily apparent reason. Under the BIOS menu, Power, ACPI, there is an option for "Wake on PCI PME" which is normally 'Disabled'. If this has somehow been enabled and you have certain types of PCI devices installed, this would cause the computer to power on whenever that device encounters a "Power Management Event" and signals the MB to turn on.

Hope this helps.