openmind — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:31:05 +0000

DM,

I reformatted my entire drive, reloaded the bare minmum and then tried IE6 again, same proble. I think it may be my install disk... I then reformatted again to get rid of all traces of IE6 and put IE 5.5 SP2 back on and thats where I'm sticking...

As far as I could tell there was no major benefits to me upgrading anyway so until the entire world is using IE6, I'm staying as I am!!

mairving — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:16:47 +0000

Well, I don't think that you got a bad apple. IE 6.0 has a bucket load of problems. Some didn't show up until weeks of use. The most annoying problems seem to be with opening new windows. It has a great tendency to just kind of leave that window hanging and not load at all. I've decided to keep 5.5 for awhile longer until maybe the first service pack.

disaster-master — Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:01:05 +0000

Flipper how are you coming along with IE 6 or did you go back to the old standby???? Mine is doing fine so far. Me thinks ya just got a bad apple.

I thought I would just post this here since it sorta pertains to IE 6 and those annoying little toolbars that IE6 displays when an image loads.

I found a metatag at Dynamic Drive that you can insert in your webpages that will prevent the toolbar from showing up in IE6 when someone views you site. Not sure if it works and may not be of any use to anyone but here it is.

or you can add the following to your images:

openmind — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:31:21 +0000

Oh sod it....

I'm just gonna do a format and reload everything...I think I may have a virus lurking anyways....

Methinks I shall surely use 5.5 as 6 is...well....not evrything I wanted for christmas!

openmind — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:10:51 +0000

Well I've figured out why its happening but I can't work out how to stop it happening!

To sort it I went to view -> Encoding and selected Western European (Windows). If Western European (ISO) is selected the images do not show. I thought if I ticked auto-select it might solve the problem but no....

The thing is whenever I visit a site that I have to change the encoding for the next time I visit that site it kicks it back to the ISO setting and the images crash again. Plus it hasn't sorted out the graphics in emails problem...

Hmmm...methinks I shall write to Bill Gates and call him a plonker....

openmind — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:48:23 +0000

Here's some more!

I just received an email in HTML format and none of the images are showing...Is it a file associaaion problem perhaps?

disaster-master — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:42:20 +0000

Do you want your spanking now or later?

Mark Hensler — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:23:50 +0000

Oh my, I spoke too soon.

disaster-master — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:58:35 +0000

Hey Flipper,

I figured out how to get rid of the image resize icon and the other thing too in IE6.

go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced (tab)

In the Advanced section scroll down to the Multimedia section and UN-check these:
*Enable Automatic Image Resizing
*Enable Image Tool Bar

Mark Hensler — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:21:47 +0000

Seems like they should at least put an ON/OFF option in the settings somewhere. Anyway, that's M$ for you... always in control.