Red X Fix Messed Up My Computer.

OK fellers,

The red X fix may have worked for being able to see the pics on web pages, but it wrecked havoc with my computer.

I discovered a couple of days ago that I could not open any .jpg files on my computer with IExplore anymore, which is the default file association for jpeg, & jpg images. Everytime I tried, it would try to open it, but would bounce back and forth between the viewing window, & a File Download dialog box, in a continious loop. Trying to stop this continious looping was a mess. Once it started looping, you had to either push the re-set button on your computer, or do a dozen end tasks to get it to stop. Trying to do a normal shut down did not work. It would not shut down, and would keep right on looping. I kept trying to find an answer to stop the looping, but nothing helped until........

It finally dawned on me that it might have been the Red X fix that caused it. So I went back into Regedit & changed the Content Type back to image\jpeg, and wholah! . I can open .jpg's on my computer again without any problem. So the Red X fix wasn't such a good fix after all. It caused more problems than it solved.

I'd rather not see pics on the web pages than to not be able to open .jpg files on my computer.

I sure hope people who read the other post & thought the fix would work on theirs didn't do it, because I don't want anyone else's computer getting messed up like mine did.

It's fine now, but gave me a fit for a few days. I just wanted everyone to know what happened.

 

Deloris--You should post this in the original thread, so others will find it.

 

OK, I did. Hope I don't get my chops busted for double posting.