All I get when I open a link with a photo, cartoon etc is a square with a red x in a little box in the upper left hand corner. This happened 2 days ago and am desperate. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
eddie stinson

Most browsers allow you to turn off downloading pictures completely, as a way to download only the text of a website faster. The first step would be to check to make sure that's configured properly. In Internet Explorer, that's in Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, and then in the Multimedia section of the list, there's an item Show Pictures.

If that's set properly to show pictures, then you might check to see if you have any ad-blocking or content filtering software installed. Sometimes they can erroneously start blocking everything that isn't text.

If you're seeing red X's on only some sites, it's more typically either a problem downloading or a web site design issue.

Here's some more information from microsoft.