loading images from hdd to a website.

Hi, I work and play an online RPG which offers players the chance to help the
server maintain some of it's speed by instead of downloading images from the
server loading them from their hard drive in the form of a downloadable image
pack. I am not overly familiar with IE7 but many players report that they can
not load the images, this was not an issue in IE6. We've tried several fixes
but nothing has come through 100% effective.

To give a little more detail heres how the image pack works.

The player downloads and installs the image pack to their Hard Drive, they
then place the file path used in to a specific option on the server, the game
then when it loads the images seeks to load them from that file path instead
of a default image server path.

Does anyone have a suggestion or valid proof method of this being able to
work again like it would on IE6?

Many Many thanks in advance

"Iceglow" <Iceglow@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I work and play an online RPG which offers players the chance to help the
> server maintain some of it's speed by instead of downloading images from the
> server loading them from their hard drive in the form of a downloadable image
> pack. I am not overly familiar with IE7 but many players report that they can
> not load the images, this was not an issue in IE6. We've tried several fixes
> but nothing has come through 100% effective.
>
> To give a little more detail heres how the image pack works.
>
> The player downloads and installs the image pack to their Hard Drive, they
> then place the file path used in to a specific option on the server, the game
> then when it loads the images seeks to load them from that file path instead
> of a default image server path.
>

> Does anyone have a suggestion or valid proof method of this being able to
> work again like it would on IE6?


Sounds like a symptom of more Security/Obscurity in IE7.

FWIW I would try researching on that tack by using ProcMon.


>
> Many Many thanks in advance


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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