Monday, March 23, 2009

Microsoft Outlook, Red X on first pic in email

This has happened to me quite a few times & I found this solution. I thought of sharing it with you all so that you might not have to do the repetitive search ;-)

In Microsoft Outlook, after some time, all my mails that have embedded picture's in them were showing a peculiar behavior. The first image in the email would show a red x & the rest of the pictures would show up just fine. If there was only one picture on the email it would show up as a red x.

I searched & found this as the solution.

1) Open Regedit.

2) Browse to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

3) Copy the value of the 'OutlookSecureTempFolder' key.

4) Start->Run

5) Paste that value & open the folder

6) Delete all the files in this folder.

7) Everything should be fine now.