That update is applied to my version of OE on the 12th November so it is a
possibility I will investigate further- however this is a day before the
problem showed.

I can't recall the PC rebooting at that point but it did following the
NVidia update. So it is possible that is the cause in my case. I won't get
the chance to uninstall that update tonight but I will report back as soon
as I have done it- hopefully tomorrow night.

Thanks very much for the info, I will let you know what happens.


btw does anyone have a link to IE6 on its own? If the solution isn't found
it shouldn't be too long until OE7 is out, apparently its out to the beta
testers as part of a larger package.




"Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
news:eVU5mHz6FHA.1032@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> You said Outlook without pics... .
>
> Well, if these are pics that come from websites I can understand that,
> pics in an html email could be links to graphics on the web and OE would
> use IE components to get them, so that may not be much of a clue, only
> confirmation (as is FireFox) that the fault is in part of IE rather than
> network connectivity in general. Is that what you mean or is there some
> other oddity going on with OE and pictures? (Or are you actually using
> Outlook the program?)
>
> Now, I've been playing with a number of older machines and have installed
> everal versions of 2000, XP, XP Pro and 2003 just to see how they compare,
> and looking at this one (2003) the most recent update for IE on about 12th
> October was KB896688 which leads to here....
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS05-052.mspx
>
> The FAQ explains the update, it does diable some functionality in some
> familiar looking .dlls.
>
> Now, I have a number of other updates for that date also which show in my
> add/remove programs (including updates checkmark) list but that's the only
> one to which I saw specific reference to IE, the others did not show up
> that way.
>
> What do you think about trying to uninstall that and then check the
> registry entries listed in the FAQ again to see if they change back? I
> wouldn't suggest you change them if not unless you are sure what you are
> doing, but it seems to me this might just be a possibility. I can't test
> this because none of the systems I've run through the updates etc have
> failed.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
>
> "ImStumped" <ImStumped@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:622F77AF-68A5-4048-B3DF-E708A5C26FA1@microsoft.com...
>> I'm having the same problem with IE 6. Firefox works, outlook without
>> pics,
>> any other internet program that does not rely on IE. This started
>> happening
>> after the last set of updates in late October. The first time it
>> happened,
>> system restore back a week and a half (Oct 24) fixed it, happened again
>> after
>> updates installed, restore to setpoint before update install did not fix
>> it.
>> I have an ATI video card, Never had norton or Zone-Alarm installed, on
>> high
>> internet, using Windows Firewall, AVG 7 Anti-virus, Microsoft
>> Anti-Spyware
>> beta, Ad-Aware SE personal, Spybot S&D, found no viruses and removed all
>> spyware.
>>
>>
>> IE still doesn't work, and everything I have tried have (obviously) not
>> worked.
>
>