Fixed the "Red X " Image Problem!

[Junior]

NOT being a user of Norton Internet Security, I was forced
to look into other resolutions for the red X image
problem.

**<solution>**
This is the nutshell solution to this problem for me.
I provide an explanation after of how I figured it out.

Solution:
REMOVE these registry keys:
MaxConnectionsPerServer
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

If you have them in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Internet Settings

They don't appear to be present by default.
**</solution>**

**<explanation>**
(Internet Theory Section) - A web page is not just one
request to a server but a request for each part that makes
up the page, so a single page with 200 graphic images on
it is 201 individual requests to the server. Now, if you
have set a larger than normal setting for maximum
connections to a server and this exceeds the maximum
allowed by the server itself, then you could run into
problems.

After reading a post, in another thread, about the number
of connections allowed per server setting, I recalled that
I may have played with or ADDED registry entries in the
past in hopes of improving Internet performance. The Red X
thing looked like that could be related because it looked
like it was either giving up too early on page draws or
there was an issue with too many connections to the same
server as in a page with lots of graphics on it.
The real kicker was that the refresh button didn't fix
pages that had a red X problem on them, (hitting refresh
forces the browser to go and get all parts of a page from
the server not getting them from cache). IE6 must be
better at spitting out these requests to the server and
hence maxed out the connections, faster than 5.0 or 5.5
did, that the server allowed and failed on the requests
that yielded a Red X, hence the Red color indicating a
problem.

Under the registry location of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Internet Settings

There are 2 entries that I must have added after reading
an article on performance.

MaxConnectionsPerServer
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

I run Win98 with multiple users enabled so I was able to
refer to another user profile on my machine to see if
these keys existed in the other accounts by default as
these are per user settings, they DIDN'T. So I noted the
keys in a text file in case I needed to put them back in
and proceeded to REMOVE these two keys from the registry.

**</explanation>**

Wala! It worked!

Hope this helps!

Paul

Note: If you are interested in playing around with these
keys and their settings, they had values of dword:00000032
and dword:00000064 respectively to the order presented
above.

[Wildhorse]

"Junior" <pa...@nocontact.com> wrote in message
news:17df201c1388b$1e1c8640$a5e62ecf@tkmsftngxa07...

> NOT being a user of Norton Internet Security, I was forced
> to look into other resolutions for the red X image
> problem.

> Solution:
> REMOVE these registry keys:
> MaxConnectionsPerServer
> MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

Nice effort there Junior but the Max Connection to Server isn't what is
causing the images not being loaded (although I have yet to find why some
people have this problem other than a simple cross-software conflict) since
ALL registry settings are set to the same default and since MOST people do
not have this problem then (of course) it would simply mean that a registry
modification wouldn't be the answer.