TaxCut

Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I can't get
clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance instead of a
"TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a colorless rectangle
with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny box with the red X. There is
no way I can see to bring up the image since there is no context menu for
these links. If you click inside a rectangle, however, it will advance you
to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address this.

Roger Fink wrote:
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I
can't get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For
instance instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic,
I have a colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the
famous tiny box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring
up the image since there is no context menu for these links. If you
click inside a rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it
says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

Fix/update your Java.


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I'm running it with Win98SE. No problem with graphics!!
Joe

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
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Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I can't get
clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance instead of a
"TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a colorless rectangle
with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny box with the red X. There
is
no way I can see to bring up the image since there is no context menu for
these links. If you click inside a rectangle, however, it will advance you
to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address this.

Thanks. Looks like I've got the problem, not Block

Joe C wrote:
I'm running it with Win98SE. No problem with graphics!!
Joe

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I
can't get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance
instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a
colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny
box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring up the image
since there is no context menu for these links. If you click inside
a rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

dadiOH wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I
can't get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For
instance instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic,
I have a colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the
famous tiny box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring
up the image since there is no context menu for these links. If you
click inside a rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it
says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

Fix/update your Java.

I was using 1.4.2_13, so, based on what you suggested, I tried version 1.5
but it didn't help. I also tried switching to Microsoft's version and that
made no difference,
Since I have java set up to display the icon in the tray when running and no
icon appeared with TaxCut open, either the app won't launch or it isn't
required. I tend to think it isn't required, because I've been using the
program successfully for a long time now and a java icon has never been
placed in the tray.

OT: I do have a Java problem buried in the registry somewhe 1.5_7 is the
highest version I can install even after a full uninstall - on line
installations above that won't take and saved full installs above that won't
open, but unless that is related to this I'll save it for another day. FWIW
I'm back to 1.4.2_13. I figure it's safer, although maybe not by much.

Roger Fink wrote:
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I can't
get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance
instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a
colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny
box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring up the image
since there is no context menu for these links. If you click inside a
rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

I also have this problem with images in OE (I never know if the boxes with
the red x at the end of replies to my posts are expressing approval or
telling me to get lost). Isn't this some kind of a scripting problem?
Working backwards here, what dll or other system files, if any, might
produce the result I'm getting if it were corrupted, or were not the right
version? If there are likely candidates, I'll replace them.

The reason you're getting them when you read the messages in HTML is that
they are links to images that were placed there by websites where people
were replying from (Google News, Microsoft's Support site, etc.), and not
embedded. When you download the messages using OE, you're not getting the
images and the links are relative, not fully qualified, so they don't work.
The red X indicates an image placeholder where the image isn't available.

But you have a much worse problem: If you're getting boxes with red X's at
the ends of your OE news messages, then you're reading them in HTML and you
shouldn't be doing so. Change the options to read news messages in Plain
Text (ToolsOptionsRead tab.)

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"Roger Fink" wrote in message
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Roger Fink wrote:
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I can't
get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance
instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a
colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny
box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring up the image
since there is no context menu for these links. If you click inside a
rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

I also have this problem with images in OE (I never know if the boxes with
the red x at the end of replies to my posts are expressing approval or
telling me to get lost). Isn't this some kind of a scripting problem?
Working backwards here, what dll or other system files, if any, might
produce the result I'm getting if it were corrupted, or were not the right
version? If there are likely candidates, I'll replace them.

I'm afraid that the plain text box is already checked. Many moons ago none
other than Pa Bear himself tried to rid me of these boxes/x's. As you know,
if PB can't solve an OE problem, then there is no solution. I've tried to
learn to like them, like crabgrass.


Gary S. Terhune wrote:
The reason you're getting them when you read the messages in HTML is
that they are links to images that were placed there by websites
where people were replying from (Google News, Microsoft's Support
site, etc.), and not embedded. When you download the messages using
OE, you're not getting the images and the links are relative, not
fully qualified, so they don't work. The red X indicates an image
placeholder where the image isn't available.

But you have a much worse problem: If you're getting boxes with red
X's at the ends of your OE news messages, then you're reading them in
HTML and you shouldn't be doing so. Change the options to read news
messages in Plain Text (ToolsOptionsRead tab.)


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
Roger Fink wrote:
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I
can't get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance
instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a
colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny
box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring up the image
since there is no context menu for these links. If you click inside
a rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

I also have this problem with images in OE (I never know if the
boxes with the red x at the end of replies to my posts are
expressing approval or telling me to get lost). Isn't this some
kind of a scripting problem? Working backwards here, what dll or
other system files, if any, might produce the result I'm getting if
it were corrupted, or were not the right version? If there are
likely candidates, I'll replace them.

Fixed it. The problem was that those problem images were gifs, and under
folder options/file types gifs are lumped in with four or five others (tiff,
jpg, bmp,etc) as "Paint Shop Pro 7 Image". Whatever was selected to open
with PSP as the default in PSP's GUI preferences got lumped into one file
type. By deregistering "Paint Shop Pro 7 Image", and then reregistering it
through the program exactly as before with the exclusion of gif, I could
then create a separate file type for gif, using IE as the default opener.
After that TaxCut displayed fine. Using "open with", I've reset the default
for gif back to PSP. So far it's still a separate entry under folder
options/file types. Why this wasn't a problem in the previous TaxCut is
beyond me.

Could someone kindly post a smilie or a frownie? I'd like to see if it
carries over into OE



Gary S. Terhune wrote:
The reason you're getting them when you read the messages in HTML is
that they are links to images that were placed there by websites
where people were replying from (Google News, Microsoft's Support
site, etc.), and not embedded. When you download the messages using
OE, you're not getting the images and the links are relative, not
fully qualified, so they don't work. The red X indicates an image
placeholder where the image isn't available.

But you have a much worse problem: If you're getting boxes with red
X's at the ends of your OE news messages, then you're reading them in
HTML and you shouldn't be doing so. Change the options to read news
messages in Plain Text (ToolsOptionsRead tab.)


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
Roger Fink wrote:
Anyone else having a problem running HR Bloch TaxCut in 98SE? I
can't get clickable graphic images on a page to appear. For instance
instead of a "TAKE THE TOUR" graphic, or a "NEXT" graphic, I have a
colorless rectangle with the word "NEXT" in it and the famous tiny
box with the red X. There is no way I can see to bring up the image
since there is no context menu for these links. If you click inside
a rectangle, however, it will advance you to where it says.

The program says it will run on 98SE.

Lots of Help in the program but I couldn't find any way to address
this.

I also have this problem with images in OE (I never know if the
boxes with the red x at the end of replies to my posts are
expressing approval or telling me to get lost). Isn't this some
kind of a scripting problem? Working backwards here, what dll or
other system files, if any, might produce the result I'm getting if
it were corrupted, or were not the right version? If there are
likely candidates, I'll replace them.

Roger Fink wrote:

OT: I do have a Java problem buried in the registry somewhe 1.5_7 is the
highest version I can install even after a full uninstall - on line
installations above that won't take and saved full installs above that won't
open, but unless that is related to this I'll save it for another day. FWIW
I'm back to 1.4.2_13. I figure it's safer, although maybe not by much.

For this sidetopic, it may :-) or may not :-( help if you install
'Windows Installer 2.00.2600.0002(ANSI) Engine'[1] on it's own before
running the newer Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installers. Either way
it shouldn't hurt anything.

[1] http://www.installengine.com/Msiengine20/instmsia.exe

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