Image problems in IE7, but not in Firefox

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rdarne - 09 Jun 2008 21:56 GMT

All images in IE7 look like 3D op art. However, they load just fine in
Firefox. This problem was also present in IE6, so I upgraded to no avail.

I'm running XP service pack 3 (which was just updated in an attempt to clear
this problem, as well).

Thanks for any assistance.

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Leonard Grey - 09 Jun 2008 22:31 GMT

And of course everybody knows what "3D op art" looks like...

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> All images in IE7 look like 3D op art. However, they load just fine in
> Firefox. This problem was also present in IE6, so I upgraded to no avail.
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> Thanks for any assistance.

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PA Bear [MS MVP] - 09 Jun 2008 23:56 GMT

Care to cite a few web-pages with such images?

> All images in IE7 look like 3D op art. However, they load just fine in
> Firefox. This problem was also present in IE6, so I upgraded to no avail.
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> Thanks for any assistance.

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VanguardLH - 10 Jun 2008 00:30 GMT

Make sure you aren't using any "web accelerators". They work by only
partially downloading the content of a web page, like images. They do
NOT accelerate anything. They detract from the content so there are
fewer bytes to download but they have absolutely no effect on your
bandwidth or how much bandwidth the server will allocate to your
connection for load-balancing amongst multiple connections.

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rdarne - 10 Jun 2008 22:38 GMT

Vanguard: Thanks for the idea on the web accelerators. I will look into it.

Leonard: Sorry that I used "op art" to describe it, but I couldn't figure
out how else to put it. I would have liked to paste in a screen shot. Have
you seen those pictures that have the hidden image in them? The ones where
you have to stare at it until the picture comes through? That is what I was
trying to describe and that is what it looks like.

PA Bear: This happens to all web pages with images. I've checked jpegs and
gifs. I can copy these images and view them fine in Microsoft Photo Editor.

> > All images in IE7 look like 3D op art. However, they load just fine in
> > Firefox. This problem was also present in IE6, so I upgraded to no avail.
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> bandwidth or how much bandwidth the server will allocate to your
> connection for load-balancing amongst multiple connections.

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VanguardLH - 10 Jun 2008 23:24 GMT

> Vanguard: Thanks for the idea on the web accelerators. I will look into it.
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> PA Bear: This happens to all web pages with images. I've checked jpegs and
> gifs. I can copy these images and view them fine in Microsoft Photo Editor.

Still need an example. You might be visiting pages with .png images.

By the way, did you ever look down in the status bar in IE7 to see if
you have zoom set to something other than 100%?

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rdarne - 11 Jun 2008 16:34 GMT

No web accelerators. Zoom was set to 100%. I tried many different zoom
levels, and it looked the same in each.

Example: www.adventurecycling.org

Thanks.

> > Vanguard: Thanks for the idea on the web accelerators. I will look into it.
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> By the way, did you ever look down in the status bar in IE7 to see if
> you have zoom set to something other than 100%?

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VanguardLH - 12 Jun 2008 03:48 GMT

> Example: www.adventurecycling.org

Right-click on the picture on the central picture on that web page.
Select to look at Properties. It should have a path to an image file
named GreatDivideTenthHomepage_Teasdale.jpg.

Right-click on the picture and use "Save Picture As" in the context
menu. In Windows Explorer, double-click on the saved image file. Does
it look the same as what you see inside IE7, or does it better or worse?

Is the saved image file a .jpg or .bmp file?

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