Little red 'x '

I have been getting quite a lot of web sites with the little red x in a white box appearing. I have the latest java and I am running xp2 with the latest service pack installed. My laptop has the same OS etc and there is no problem there.

Any ideas?

Help appreciated, thanks.

The "x" simply means - as I'm sure you know - that either the image is not loaded correctly for the browser to display, or that the browser doesnt know how to display it.

You might find that these websites are using the latest version of Flash Player, for example, to display their media and you dont have the latest plugin on your browser - although normally the browser (presumably you're using IE) will prompt you if there is an update available and it requires it. Most of the time, I put these down to issues with the website itself though - thier ad server might be slow, or they've a lot of traffic on their site at that moment which could be slowing down the delivery of all their images. I wouldnt worry too much about it unless it starts causing problems.

Alternatively, try installing another browser like Mozilla (much better than IE anyway) and see how you get on with that. You needn't uninstall IE to run Mozilla.

I had some problems with the latest SP2 & java .... The new 1.4_6 has a patch it but its still not 100% ..I'm back on sp1 and every things in good working order as they say..)

http://www.java.com/en/index.jsp

Or the active x may need updating...( settings (boxes) need editing in Internet Explorer /tool's / options/security...) I'd check their all enabled before updating the java...

a320 said:

I had some problems with the latest SP2 & java .... The new 1.4_6 has a patch it but its still not 100% ..I back on sp1 and every things in good working order as they say..)

http://www.java.com/en/index.jsp

Or the active x may need updating...( settings (boxes) need editing in Internet Explorer /tool's / options/security...) I check their all enabled before updating the java...

Click to expand...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx

Thanks anyway lads, I appreciate your advice - I will try the Jave patch, if that fails then there is always the gallon of four star in the garage, that should cure it.

I'd do the offline java installation with sp2 ....(rather than the automatic online one)
But it still sounds like an active x problem with the new sp2 security* feature's.. ( *someone say joke?)

Interesting post a320, I've had a long run of problems with java, since my nightmare of a time with SP2.
Were the problems showing as the dialogue box which says "java has encountered a problem with app.start......."?
Should I uninstall my existing java and re-install, or just up grade?
Cheers
Q
ps - miss our little chats.
keep the blue side up.

Hi Q.. Yes I miss those, I've also not heard from fordy in a while...?

Not really a software person ( more of a hardware freak..) But what I've done in the past is removed the java ( using add & remove programs in control panel) then run a disk clean up ( just the basic windows one in system tools...) Once thats complete I reinstall java ...This normally sorts it out..( in my case any way)

CJ

Cheers - wouldn't have thought about the disc cleanup!
Q

A couple of useful cleaners http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/
http://cleanup.stevengould.org/
Boy, try the Browser Tune
http://www.browsertune.com/bt2kfast/