Boxes with red x on Web Sites

Hello, I hope I am in the right place to ask this question. I have two computers at home both are Win XP Pro sp2 and set up almost identical. One is for my wife and I and the other is for the family kids, grandkids, vistors. And some times I wil test a new program on it. I am not computer smart at all but if we get a new program sometimes we load on that one first to see if we like it. Any way on that computer for the kids and such we have the same homepage and it is Yahoo.com and where Yahoo name is in the middle of the page there is a square with a red x and where the advertisements are and moving there is just a blank space. This is with IE 6 also on that computer Firefox is installed and Opers too. I checked those two and the very same thing. Just a box no name or no moving advertisements. And we can go to other web site and have the same thing. To check it we can go to Yahoo.com on the second computer IE 6 shows box and a red x, we go on our computer and a Red Yahoo is printed out in big letters and the advertisements are there and moving. So since all three browsers have the same issue on the second computer I thought it may be something with XP Pro files I need to fix or install. So far I have tried reinstalling Flash, Shockwave and Sun Java also I tried the SFC. I keep all the programs and OS up to date and I do cleaning the hard drive with Windows Disk Cleanup and defragmentor. Thanks for any help or advice where to look to fix the browsers problem.

Dan

 

Thanks TonyT for you web site, I did read that before I asked my question and none of those fixes apply. I do not use any Norton products. I turned off the firewall and turned off the AV, BitDefender 9 just in case. But what has me puzzled is I have 3 web browsers, IE 6, Firefox 1.07, Opera 8.5 and they all do the same thing. No graphics or pictures. Just a box where the pictures or moving picturres are supposed to be. I have 2 computers I look at computer #1 and all pictures and moving pictures work in all three browsers I look at computer #2 and all I get is empty boxes in all three browsers and that is on the same web page on both computers. That makes me think a file or registry item is doing it when all three browsers are doing the same thing only boxes no pictures or moving pictures. Thank for any help

Dan

 

Dan55--It could be because your IE Tools|Internet Options|Security tab|Custom Level settings do not permit ActiveX to run. If you trust the site, try putting the site into Trusted Sites (uncheck the box "Require server verification... "). Trusted Sites allows ActiveX and scripting to run by default.

 

Welshjim, Thanks for the suggestion. I did try that, in fact I went back and set all IE 6 to default settings and put many sites in trusted site. There must be a common problem because it is the same for all three browsers. IE 6, Firefox, and Opera. They all do not show Yahoo in the box on the middle of Yahoo's web page. All are blank. But thanks.

Dan

 

I had the same problem before and I had to download macromedia flash player as well as shockwave and to make sure I had my active x turned on