I reloaded Windows XP on my laptop a month or so ago because it had been about 3 years since I first did it and everything was running real slow.

It’s now going like a train again, but I’ve noticed that my emails in Outlook 2003 (I did have Office 2007, but I like 2003 more) do not download any images embedded in them, I just get a little red cross in a square, and also I can’t get iTunes to connect to the internet to download podcasts.

I installed Microsoft Security Essentials, but I can’t see why that is stopping anything.

What have I got wrong?

I think it may be that your security settings are set to highest? For me this will do that to images.

have you installed all the latest Java plug-in’s etc?

Bunch of suggestions on here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/9711349e-c156-45cf-ab2e-309a18317fad/

Well, I’ve tried everything. Even deleted and reloaded Outlook. So now I’m going to try one of the suggestions off z1ppy’s link – this one

There is a registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security. It contains a key called “OutlookSecureTempFolder “.

Delete the key! This fixed my issue with any embedded GFX and the red cross.

But I don’t know how to.

Anybody care to spell out the way to do it? I went into regedit and found the link, but what then?

…and then I found that all my troubles were because I didn’t have Automatically Detect Settings ticked in my connection options.

What a faff.