If I open an html file off my hard disk into IE6, none of
the images work - they all turn up as red X's.
Images loaded from http: work perfectly.

They worked fine in IE5.5, it was only when I upgraded to
IE6 that the stopped working. This on both my computer and
the computer of a friend of mine, both running Windows 98
(not SE, if it matters).

Not only to images in IE not work, but anything that uses
IE for its display, eg if I turn Active Desktop on the
background becomes a red X, and the emoticons in Yahoo
Messenger are red X's also.

I have tried everything I can think of (clearing cache,
checking and rechecking security settings, spybotsd and
adaware, etc) but to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
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Phlip

(This post was crossposted on
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie6.browser and
microsoft.public.win98.internet.browser - with no help
from either)