Nothing infuriates me more than the default and senseless windows 7 behaviour of opening GIF files in IE rather than in the picture viewer, madness. How do I change it so that windows opens the files properly? There doesn't seem to be an option to open it in the picture viewer so do I have to go hunting down the executable file?
How to stop windows moronically opening GIF images in IE?
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when i installed irfanview it changed the setting
the win7 picture viewer didnt show gifs moving here
the win7 picture viewer didnt show gifs moving here
Better question, why would MS remove the ability to view animated gifs in the picture viewer?
As mentioned above, grab irfanview as a replacement to the picture viewer. Supports a billion file types too.
Better question, why would MS remove the ability to view animated gifs in the picture viewer?
perhaps the clue is in the name? "Windows Photo Viewer"...
The picture viewer displays the GIF images perfectly if I use the forward button to go to it, so why open IE when I click it directly? Better yet, why create an image viewer that doesn't support one of the most common image formats used for over 10 years?
Picture viewer doesn't show up in the list. Have no idea where the executable is or what it's called.
Better question, why would MS remove the ability to view animated gifs in the picture viewer?
As mentioned above, grab irfanview as a replacement to the picture viewer. Supports a billion file types too.
I'd rather not have to install another program for basic os functionality, is it really necessary?
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It displays them, but will only display the first image in an animated gif.