We have a significant number of users still on Windows XP and running IE8 and we have noticed over the past year a recurring problem with the widely discussed issue of images being randomly replaced with Red X on web pages. It took several weeks of reserarch and testing to resolve the first one when it came along. We tried compatibility mode, clearing the Internet Cache, Resetting IE8 to defaults, uninstalling and reinstalling IE8 completely among others. None completely resolved the issue.
I finally stumbled across an answer that, unfortunately, I can no longer find that indicated the issue could be caused by corruption in the TCP/IP stack and it could be fixed by repairing the stack using the commennetsh int ip reset. This did indeed solve the problem and has continued to do so for the users who have developed the same problem.
I'm hoping these comments may help others who may still be frustrated with similar issues but I'd also like to pose a secondary questiuon; why do we continue to see this issue pop up? Since XP is no longer supported I can't really expect to get much help there but I'm curious if there is some issue between IE8 and Windows XP or perhaps some third party application causing these issues to continue to plague our users. '
ince we will be stuck with XP for at least another year thanks to budget limitations, I thought it worth investigating further in hopes of digging up some idea of the root cause of the IP stack problem so we can attack that and prevent the Red X issue entirely.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this or can you suggest methods I might use to dig into what may have caused the IP stack corruption in the first place? Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Thanks...Ray