Re: Help Images Missing --.reg downloads not working

Hi san--

All the credit (and not enough in my opinion) goes to Ramesh and his excellent site and blog for this one:

See this article by Ramesh:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/194/1/Pages-in-Windows-Vista-Help-and-Support-are-not-displayed-correctly.html

Symptoms
When you open Help and Support center in Windows Vista, one of the following problems may occur:

Red X mark appears where the images are to be displayed
CSS styles are not applied to the pages in Help and Support
Error Internet Explorer cannot download / from Help occurs:
Resolution:

This happens if the Content Type registry setting for certain file types is missing or incorrect. To fix the problem download helpcontentfix_vista.reg from the Attachments section of this article and save it to Desktop. Right-click on the downloaded file and choose Merge. The REG file fixes the Content Type values for XML/XSL/PNG/JPG/CSS file types, and thereby resolves the problem.

Good luck,

CH

"san216" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:bbd86d4e70c808d68d5946e8f72161df@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

I have read many posts on vista help images/icons/pictures that are
missing or red x'd or not diplaying properly. I have googled it quite a
lot.

I have downloaded, saved to desktop, right clicked and 'merge'ed
these, along with a computer restart.

Fix Help.reg
FixHelpand Support.vbs
helpcontentfix_vista.reg
png.reg

Also went to regedit and did it manually.
I have had no success.
I am running vists home premuim sp1 on an HP computer.

Currently my regedit shows:
png folder on left and when highlighted on the right it shows:

(Default) REG_SZ pngfile
Content Type REG_SZ image/png
PerceivedType REG_SZ image

Any suggestions?
Thanks!


--
san216

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