Soop Dogg Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Any ideas what I've done? None of the animated avatars or smilies are doing anything any more on my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Do you have a firewall? I had this on mine and it turned out to be a ZoneAlarm setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 More info please, Brian. What browser, IE6? Or what? What OS? XP? Have you recently installed SP2? Tried looking in Tools | Internet Options | Advanced | Multimedia 'Play animations in web pages' ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Try checking the following... under advanced in the internet options, is the "play animations" field selected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 My OS is XP. The browser is Mozilla Firefox, but I tried IE6 and they don't work there either. Thinking it could be ZoneAlarm Pro as I downloaded it recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 "Play Animations" is checked in ie6 but Firefox doesn't have this option. Won't touch SP2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Yeah if it isn't working Firefox or IE it's most likely a firewall issue. Can you turn off or disable ZoneAlarm to test it? See this for more info : http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/archive/topic/23448-1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 It will be ZA Pro. You need to uncheck the options that block both banner ads and Animations. For me that solved both the animated gif issue and also allowed me to see pics attached to posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 Yep. Just turned ZA off completely and they worked again. Now, where do I find these options...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Zone Alarm is poo. If you have a decent router with built-in hardware firewall you don't need any of those rubbish software firewalls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Yep. Just turned ZA off completely and they worked again. Now, where do I find these options...... On the Privacy screen, hit the Main tab and go to Ad Blocking/custom. The options are in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 But that is what I've got.....and it's always worked well for me,so I decided to upgrade to ZA Pro. Just need to figure out some of its' settings now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 ZA Pro is fine. It does what you need it to do and doesn't cost as much as a hardware firewall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soop Dogg Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 Cheers Red. I knew I could rely on this board for quick info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 ZA Pro is fine. It does what you need it to do and doesn't cost as much as a hardware firewall.I thought that too, until I needed a router for networking purposes. The hardware firewall is built-in to the router I bought so it didn't really cost me anything. I wouldn't go back to a software firewall now. YMMV, but nobody can say a software FW is better than a HW one. Set it, forget it. No having to have the latest updates to keep ahead of the hackers. No trying to figure out weird problems with web pages (like this one of Brian's) Works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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