Brandy J, this isn't necessarily a java issue unless a message has
specifically informed you of this.
You have checked Internet Options > Advanced tab to ensure that Java is
enabled, but have you also looked at the checkboxes under the "Multimedia"
section to ensure that the options to display animations, pictures, etc are
enabled? Remember to click the "Apply" button to effect any changes made,
and then to close and reopen Internet Explorer.
It COULD be that certain image types are not displaying properly from the
website. Gif and Png image types sometimes don't show in Internet Explorer,
and this is most usually due to changes to "file associations" created by the
installation of image editing programs.
Have you tried RIGHT-Clicking in the area where the red "X's" are
displaying, and choosing "Properties" from the menu?
If the code that makes up the web-page is configured to display Macromedia
Flash content, then you will see a right-click menu that immediately
identifies that you have right-clicked in an area where Flash content is
designed to display. The obvious answer in this case is to ensure that you
have installed the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player and Shockwave
player from
http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/. You will see the links
there.
On the other hand, a Right-Click > Properties will also show you whether
this box is supposed to be occupied by an image, and will also tell you the
name of that image, the file type, and also the web address from where it is
supposed to be served up in the page you are viewing. There is always the
chance that the link to that image is a bad link, as sometimes happens, but
regular instances of this (where it didn't happen before) tend to point to
the inability of Internet Explorer to show the image. Check those
"Multimedia" settings I mentioned previously.
If this is indeed a Java-related issue, then I suggest that you install
Sun's Java Runtime Environment. Sun licensed Java to MS for a long time, and
it was integrated into Windows as "Microsoft Java Virtual Machine", but they
had a legal wrangle over licensing and withdrew the rights to distribute it
with Windows or with subsequent updates and patches. Windows XP SP1 came as
2 different releases, SP1 and SP1a. The first incorporated Java VM, while
the follow up did not.
Sun has continued developing its Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and many
web designers write content that has difficulty displaying in all but the
most recent releases of Sun's JRE.
Download and install it from
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp.
I would advise the "Offline" method where you download an installer file, go
offline, close Internet Explorer, and double-click the installer file
(currently jre-1_5_0_01-windows-i586-p.exe).
Follow the instuctions available from the link on that page, and reboot
after installing.
You will now have a new checkbox in Internet Options > Advanced named "Java
(Sun)" that allows you to enable the Sun Java Runtime Environment, and this
will become the default Virtual Machine over the "Microsoft VM". Leave the
"Use JIT Compiler" checkbox checked under that Microsoft VM option.
There will also be a new Control panel applet named "Java", with the
ubiquitous steaming coffee cup, that allows you to choose whether to save
temporary Java content or not, and also to double-check that J2RE is
configured as the default VM.
As a double-check, visit
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml and
you should see a daft pyramid thing named "Duke" sliding indolently from
side-to-side waving its stickman arms around like a traffic cop on points
duty.
One other thing to check, if none of the above remedy the situation, is to
look for a FILE named "HOSTS", normally in your "Windows" folder. This is a
FILE, despite the lack of file extension and windows flag icon, and is a
text-based file that can be used to prevent advertising content like banners
from displaying. This is done by adding domains of known ad-servers to the
list. Temporarily rename the HOSTS file to something like HOSTS.OLD and
reboot to see if this is the root of the problem.
Hope this helps you.
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