Images Blocked in received Outlook XP Email

Dear fje00,

Have you tried disabling your NAV,NIS and Zonealarm..?  Does that make a difference ?

Also what happens when you are sent an email with an attached picture.. Are you able to see that .. Try testing by sending an ordinary email to yourself with an attached picture

Thanks,
Sunray

This may be bacause of those downloaded messages lost their temp location.
somebody must have done cleaning up on the system and removed all the temp files, related to Outlook/IE and windows one.

shivsa,

Try saving the image that you receive and try to open it in a different application.. Check to see if the images will open there.

Thanks,
Sunray

u try to send any new html image from some other account to your outlook account and see if the new messages comes up.
if yes then this the problem. somebody cleaned up your old temp files.

Check this

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296065

Sunray

Okay, here's some testing results.  

If I save the received HTML message as an HTML file, and then open it in IE the images are displayed fine.

And this was interesting.  If I try to author an HTML email and insert an image into the email it won't display in the message I'm currently authoring.  I get an outline for the image, but no image is displayed.  This is all before I even send the thing.  And this is for when I am not using Word as my email editor.

But if I turn on Word as my email editor I find that when I author the message I can see the image before I send it.  But after sending it, the received image is blocked.  Even the image in the sent message in Sent Items is blocked.

And I've tried disabling ZA, NAV, and NIS.  No change.  But one of these programs has to be responsible, doesn't it?  Or is it some Outlook security setting or something?

I'm hoping someone will respond with "Oh, that old problem.  Just make this registry hack and you'll be fine."  Wishful thinking?

If I don't get a solution I will probably uninstall ZA, NAV, NIS, and maybe even Outlook one at a time and see what happens.

Here's a summary so far.

1.  Linked images in received HTML email do not display in preview pane or when the message is opened.  Just an box outline of the image with the icon of three little shapes (square, triangle, circle) is seen for the images.  Before I said it was the red "X" in the box, but that's not correct.

2.  When authoring an HTML message with MS Word as the email editor, an image that I add to the message displays fine as I'm authoring it.  After I send it to myself the image is blocked as in #1 above.  

3.  If I disable Word as the email editor then the images that I add to an HTML email are not even displayed while I'm authoring the message.

4.  If I save a received HTML message as an HTML file, and then open it in IE the images are displayed fine.

5.  If I attach an image file to an HTML email message and send it to myself, I am able to open the attachment image just fine in MS Pic and Fax Viewer applet.

6.  Closing down and disabling ZoneAlarm, Norton Anti-Virus, and Norton Internet Security has no effect.  Images are still blocked.

7.  Tried the Level1Remove registry fix as described elsewhere for the Outlook/Security key (or whatever the right key was) by adding "url" and that didn't help.  Not surpirsing I suppose since it's for attachments and my problem is with linked images.

Don't know what to do next except start uninstalling stuff, which I'll do if you experts can't help me out.

I didn't understand the temp location thing suggested by shivsa I think it was.  That had to do with cached images or something, and I didn't think that applied here since these are new email messages coming in with linked images.  Help me out if I missed the point.

I'm thinking it's got to be somesort of firewall issue, right?  Some app on my system is saying "Hey Outlook.  You're not allowed to access anything except SMTP or POP, so forget HTTP.  I'm blocking you on that one."  I've got the firewall turned off in NIS.  I'm using Zone Alarm for that.  But I can't see where it's being blocked.  In the Program Control section I have Outlook enabled for "Allow" for all setting "Access" and "Server".  And like I said, if I disable all ZA, NAV, NIS images are still blocked.

Is there some registry setting that's doing the blocking that stays on even when the apps are disabled?

Another clue.  Just noticed this.

Whereas before when I was saying things like "blah, blah, blah ... IE ..." I sould have been saying "Smart Explorer", since I use it instead of Internet Explorer.  So everything up until now has been for that browser.  Well just now I launched IE for something and all images are being blocked in IE!  Smart Explorer is fine though.

Fixed!  Thanks Sunray.

I feel like such a boob.  "Show Pictures" was disabled.  I know I didn't change it.  Could some automatic Windows update be responsible?

Oh well.  Enabled it, and life is good again.  IE and Outlook both displaying messages.

Great

Have a nice day

Sunray