What are the little red x’s that I receive often in my e mails? I click on them and nothing opens…I tell the sender I can’t open them and occasionally they will send me the same e mail without the red x…and then I can open the mail?
A red X like this in most Windows programs means a “broken image” - a direct link to a picture that can’t be found by your computer. If you get one in an email, then somebody’s trying to send you an image that you can’t get to for some reason (the link is dead, or they tried to include a picture with a local path that doesn’t exist on your machine, or something else.)
Just hope you dont get a broken image of the broken image icon. … No, wait a second…
I’ll take a guess that you are using Outlook Express in Win XP service Pack 2, and that you have he preview pane header turned off.
This is a new feature in SP2. It deliberately blocks pictures in your emails, since spammers can use them to identify your computer.
If you go view->layout and check the ‘show prieview pane header’ box, you will get a message at the top of emails that you can click to display the hidden images. Or you may go view->blocked images to display them.
Personally, I find this feature annoying. I don’t know if it’s possible to turn it off altogether.
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Also, place cursor on them and right click. If “show image” is not grayed out in the context-sensitive menu, it means that your computer failed to download the image; try clicking on it and see if it will open the image. (If it’s any of the problems noted above, you’ll just get the red X back again.)
AOL e-mail users might note that they have to activate download of attachments in many cases; the link to do so is in the upper right of your mail window.