Toolbar Button Bitmaps Not Loaded for Visual Studio Application (250496)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows NT 4.0 SP 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 98 Second Edition SP 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 98 SP 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 95 SP 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows 2000 SP 1

This article was previously published under Q250496

SYMPTOMS

When you use a program developed with Microsoft Visual Studio on a computer with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed and a color depth of 16-bits or 32-bits, the toolbar buttons may show only solid gray images rather than the expected bitmap images.

CAUSE

This problem can occur when the toolbar loads a 4096x15x16 bitmap image.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Internet Explorer version 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

267954 How to Obtain the Latest Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date      Time    Version        Size     File name     Platform
   ----------------------------------------------------------------
   01-10-01  13:37   5.81.4613.900  570,128  Comctl32.dll  Intel

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Internet Explorer version 5.5 Service Pack 2.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/23/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbfix kbIE550preSP2fix kbprb KB250496