Can anyone tell me why (quite suddenly) I'm only getting some pictures down loaded, for example - Google Image Search - on first showing I get perhaps 6 pictures the rest have the little icon in the corner. If I refresh the page I'll get some more pictures. I know it has to be something to do with my settings but can't find the glitch to put it right.
Any ideas will be tried immediately as this is driving me mad!

This is all to do with cookies. Do you have Ad-aware installed? If not, download it from here , run a sweep and all should be fine afterwards.

If you're using Internet Explorer another thing to try is emptying the Temporary Internet Files folder and let the cache rebuild it's store of images etc again. Sometimes the limit of how much the cache can hold gets reached. Also, I think what happens is that IE spends time looking through the cache's vast store of images for the one the page needs. It sometimes never finds it (or them). Hence the non-display of images. To delete the files go to:

Tools>Internet Options> and, under the Temporary Internet Files heading, press 'Delete Files'. You may notice a little slowness in page loading as the cache re-builds but this should get better on subsequent visits to the page.

Once in a while the Internet runs a bit slowly and can cause the problem.

I've mentioned a good few times now that I personally always have had trouble with Internet Explorer and images not loading. However, I have reloaded the latest version (version 6 SP1) recently and have just been to the Microsoft update site and found there is an update even to that. With all the recommended patches and updates installed I'm tentatively going to say that it is working properly at present. I'll see if it stays that way.

I prefer the Phoenix and Opera browsers though (in that order).

Thanks - I've tried both of those tips - I already had ad-aware (ran it again, where do all these spy-ware bits come from!) and the latest explorer, deleted the files and then I've tried an image search again --- resulting in one photo first time, three the second and a full page the third refresh , It's not a slow internet response, the images do appear but in a random fashion EG on the first run through it might be image 8 out of 10 that's the only one to appear. It doesn't run in any sequence - they appear randomly on the page.
Still trying!