IE Hangs on JPG?

[ScaryBinary]

I'm running Win XP Pro with IE 6 something-or-other. The problem I'm experiencing is more of a minor annoyance than anything critical, but it seems IE hangs on loading JPGs every now and then. What happens is that part of a web page will load, then it seems to get stuck on an image and the rest of the page never appears. Closing IE, then starting it again seems to fix the issue - the issue doesn't seem to be related to a slow or downed server or anything on that side of the fence.

Is this a common problem? Any clues how to fix it? I update the software regularly...

Thanks!

[herosrest]

can u not just refresh the page or image,

[ScaryBinary]

Originally posted by herosrest
can u not just refresh the page or image,
No, that's what's got me stumped. Even after refreshing the page it hangs on the same image. It seems like once it happens, other images on the site also fail to load. For example, I go to PageA.htm, which hangs half way though loading. If I stop the page from loading, then go to PageB.htm, none of the images on that page load either, and it hangs early in the process. But when I close IE, reopen it and go back to PageA.htm, it loads fine.

It seems to happen randomly. I've seen it on various sites - even on a site I was serving from my own machine using IIS, with the browser running on the same machine.

Now that I think about it, I think the sites I've seen it on are ones that have some server-side scripts running - like fetching records from a database or something. I wonder if that has anything to do with it....:confused:

[herosrest]

U can run some spyware stuff just in case but first maybe take IE back to its default setup with the button at bottom of Advanced tab in the internet control panel and then reset your preferences .

[HeddaLora]

I had a terrible time loading Yahoo once (it would hang up on the graphics), and it turned out that the submask setting on my computer (in Network Settings) was incorrect. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't (and I am not a network guru). But when I changed the submask setting, the problem resolved.

--Hedda Lora