# Computer image question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 18, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889 "2004-10-18T19:58:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889/1 "2004-10-18T19:58:26Z")
Can anyone tell me why my computer will only display certain images on web pages? I know about the option to turn off graphics; this isn’t the problem.
Also if I click on a thumbnail image you will see the picture as it’s dowloading, but when it’s complete it vanishes and I have to wait for that stupid enlarge button to show up from holding the cursor over the image a few seconds. Can’t I just skip the small image step and have all my pics come in supersized without the dumb button- it’s really annoying… thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889/2 "2004-10-18T22:38:12Z")
What browser and OS are you using? This sounds like unusual behaviour to me, and would probably be cleared up with updates to your system - browser update (or change), OS update, and, probably most important, video card driver update.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889/3 "2004-10-18T22:46:06Z")
I’ve found similar problems, with commercial installs of Windows. Sometimes they don’t have the ability to deal with JPGs. Yes, it’s a nightmare to sort out. No, I don’t know the shortcut.
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### Author:  [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889/4 "2004-10-19T13:40:41Z")
Well, I can’t say anything display driver-wise- but my OS (ME) and my browser (IE6) are always updated.
I’ll check and see if there are any updates for my card- but I seem to remember everything worked as it should when i first started-out jpegs and hyperlinks haven’t changed _that_ much… \>sigh\< helpppp$!#!$#@^% :smack:
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### Author:  [@jkirkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkirkman)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-image-question/269889/5 "2004-10-19T17:02:34Z")
I don’t know about your first question.
As for the second, if you are using Internet Explorer, check out Tools/Internet Options/Advanced, scroll down to the “Multimedia” section, and uncheck “Enable Automatic Image Resizing”. This keeps IE from guessing what size you want the images and displays whatever, erm, **OBJECTS** you are looking at in their full-size glory the first time.