Some confusion comes about because of differences between the way
REGEDIT displays data and how it exports the data. In order to transfer
data, people commonly export a registry to REG file (which is actually a
text file and can be opened in Notepad) and may copy/paste that
information for discussion purposes.

The
(DEFAULT) REG_SZ giffile
In a .REG file, what would appear as
@="giffile"
The quotes come about so that the regedit can properly parse the file on
input. You won't normally see the quotes in Regedit unless you are
looking at a path name that contains spaces.

That web site is talking about a problem where the file types have the
wrong content type, so if those file types have the right content type
(without the quotes), that's not your issue.

See the Identifying Attachment File Types and Setting File Associations
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...e.htm#identify
At the end of a the section is a utility that you can download that will
export all the registry settings related to a file type. You can then
attach that here if you would like us to look at it.







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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Cuyler" wrote in message
...
Steve,
You may have hit it with this Registry Settings web site. The site
referenced provides the settings that should appear but due to written
vs.
spoken word, I want to be doubly sure I'm understaning the
instructions given
since there's more than one way to interpret it. If you could verify
for me?
In my Registry, I navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT .gif and I
find 3
columns labeled Name, Type, Data. My precise 'names' left to right
a
(DEFAULT)
REG_SZ
giffile
The web site referenced shows under the Name column,
(Default)"giffile"
where mine is simply (Default) and under the Content Type column
"image/gif". I do not have those quote marks as indicated but
the name
is the same under Content Type. I'll stop at the .gif folder
since the
other folders appear to follow the same logic.

Thanks !




"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Can you see any images in email? Check your registry settings:
www.oehelp.com/noimg.aspx

steve

"Cuyler" wrote in message
...
Steve,
Yes, I've tried all those settings in the Security TAB numerous
times, but
thanks anyway.


"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Tools | Options | Security and uncheck the option to block images
and
external content.

steve

"Cuyler" wrote in message
...
Oh, I see. Was buried under those carats and thought part of a
previous
post.
The only thing without a carat was the 'news' item under my
signature.

So you suggested the Tool Options & uncheck the HTML content
box?
Yes,
I've been thru those menus over and over again. Every button
and every
TAB.

There's some other underlying cause of this I'm pretty sure and
Bruce
sent
me numerous links to articles that may be the root cause of all
this
but
it'll take me some time to work thru it all.

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"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"Cuyler" wrote in message
news Frank, can't see to find that article via MS or Google. Any
add'l
info
avbl
on that thread ?

What article?
I gave you something to try.
Did you try it?

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"Cuyler" wrote in message
...
I installed cable broadband last week and ever since, all
my email
messages
have been stripped of the html graphics. I subscribe to
numerous
trusted
sites i.e. Amazon.com, Buy.com, Cnet.com etc. and now
only get
text
messages accompanied by those little boxes with the red
'x' in
them.

Have confirmed all the Security settings as described here
and
elsewhere.
Plus, the option View Message in HTML is now grayed
out.

My ISP, Comcast cable, insists they installed no software
that
would
disable
this feature yet I had no problems for years on my clunky
old
dial-up.

I'm sure there's another setting I have to locate,
possibly in
the
registry,
or Internet Explorer, or some other?

WinXP Home SP2

Tools | Options | Security
Uncheck the option to block external content in HTML
messages.