IE w'ont display gif files

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I disabled the AntiVirus doftware, but it still wont work.

I discovered that the images that wont display are actually gif files (Right
click on image, then click Properties). For some reason, my IE cannot
display gif files. WIth jpg images, it is OK. How to I "turn on" IE to
display gif images?
Thks

From: "Damo" <Damo@discussions.microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: Cannot display pictures on certain sites
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2005 2:02 PM

You probably have some kind of anti advertisement/popup software running.
E.g. I run Norton Firewall 2005 and it has a setting to block pop up ads,
PLUS advertisements in web pages. Ideally you'd want any setting like that
turned off.

"Jimmy Hsu" wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am using Win XP Svc Pack 2 on DELL 2.2Ghz, 512 Mb RAM
>
> When I surfed to some sites eg the Time magazine site, the images are not
> displayed, but only placeholders for these images.
> I have checked that my IE v6 options are set to Display Pictures.
>
> Odd thing is that on other sites with images, it is OK and the pictures
> are
> displayed.
>
> I thought it was my Antivirus software (Trend's PC Pen Cillin 05, AVG)
> that
> messe things up, but disabling all the AV programs and rebooting does not
> solve the problem. Grateful for your advice. Thks
>
>
>