Not real computer savvy so I need to ask someone here who might be.

I have Windows XP OS. For a while now, I can spin the scrolling wheel on my mouse with the cursor on a downloaded image and spin through other images I have seen before on my computer screen. So what is contaminated and what do I do about it?

It sounds like it's working normally. When you download images and files they are normally stored in a certain folder (it will ask you for this folder each time you download an image or a file). When you view a downloaded image the scroll wheel tells the image viewer software to cycle through the other image files in the folder. If you want to stop this from happening just empty the folder and start afresh!

clop

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

i think you can also change your mouse settings in the control panel or in the folder options so it doesn't do that.

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None of that is really working. The trouble is that it is a temporary file. I have deleted them before and the problem still shows up but not on every image downloaded.

Did you delete your temporary files? With Internet Explorer, Tools, Internet Options, Browsing History, Delete...

clop

Yes and that didn't work either.

Hard to tell without examples, but.. The webserver tells the webbrowswer what kind of data it is sending, with certain codes. It sometimes happens that it sends the wrong kind of codes along with a .jpg or .gif or whatever images, causing the browser (if it is configured that way) to think that it has to save the image instead of just displaying it, ie it might treat an image as if it is some random datafile. This might lead to some images getting stored at the default download location, and making them show up again when you click on a picturelink when the above is happening (and you use the scroll wheel).

So, if that is what you're experiencing, it's an issue to do with server and possibly browser configurations.

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