Internet Explorer doesn't open PNG

[sk3]

I everyone

Since i've installed Fireworks MX 2004 my IE has gone crazy. It doesn't open any PNG images.

For example, if i'm in a website and i have a link to follow a PNG image, IE shows the image, but if i receive a link on MSN Messenger or run a link with a PNG image like http://blablabla/image.png it opens a download box and prompts me what to do.

I've searched over the internet for a solution but there are very little posts about it, even on macromedia web site they doesn't give a solution but they have knowledge of this problem since it's in their knowledge base...

ah, i changed the association of PNG to open with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and i can double click PNG images and opens me with that. but if i run a link to open with IE it shows me that the extension is associated with Fireworks....

Is anyone aware of this problem?

Sorry for my bad english

[tester_pedro]

for me some png files popup a download box, some are shown so maybe there are some problems with interpreting the png directly into IE window so it let you download it. but this is only my point of view of this problem

[sk3]

well this might be sound strange but i found the solution to my problem on a chinese web site with a .REG file

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.png]
"Content Type"="image/png"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/png]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"Extension"=".png"
"Image Filter CLSID"="{A3CCEDF7-2DE2-11D0-86F4-00A0C913F750}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/png\Bits]
"0"=hex:08,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,89,50,4e,47,0d,0a,1a,0a

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/x-png]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"Extension"=".png"
"Image Filter CLSID"="{A3CCEDF7-2DE2-11D0-86F4-00A0C913F750}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/x-png\Bits]
"0"=hex:08,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,89,50,4e,47,0d,0a,1a,0a

It seems that it was MIME settings that were getting IE to not recognize PNG images

hope this is useful

pngfix.reg