Gifs SOS

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MemberOvomorphApril 03, 2012811 Views7 Replies

There appears to be some very intelligent people on this forum so I thought I'd I see if anybody out there could please help me with my gif dilemma. I'm running a new laptop with windows 7, it used to play gif animations in windows pic viewer but lately it only shows a still picture. I've tried searching the internet about this but all I can find is a lot of comments saying that I cant view gifs in the viewer and should just open them in my internet browser or download an independent viewer. They used to work just fine and I'd prefer if I could fix the problem than start using other programs etc....anybody got any ideas???? Thanks for your time

Cyber_Clone
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April 03, 2012

It might be a long shot, but try uninstalling Windows PIC viewer and reinstalling it. Also look on Windows for an updated drivers....

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April 03, 2012

What youve heard is right. You need to open the picture in either an internet browser or an independent viewer. As far as I know, windows 7 has no way of viewing GIFs like older versions. Completely sucks. Windows 7 has REALLY disappointed me actually. You cant manually arrange your folders any more, and the new Microsoft Paint sucks big time...luckily I was able to install the old version of Microsoft Paint though. Come to think of it, it might be possible to download the old pic viewer?

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April 03, 2012

Whoops; meant look for updated files/add-ons, not drivers....

Werthers Original
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April 03, 2012

Thanks, I'll try looking for the older version. What hurts my head is it used to play the gifs just fine then last week it stopped, maybe it was a windows update that spoilt things. Im not too sure about windows 7 myself either

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April 03, 2012

Hmmm...Ive had Windows 7 since it released almost, and Ive never been able to view GIFs like I could in older versions of windows. I cant understand how you were able to view them last week! I might look into it.

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April 04, 2012

@WhyDontTheyFreezeHim I dont understand either, all I know is they really did work. Ive started to doubt myself after reading up on the web. But they really did work Im sure of it.

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April 04, 2012

Windows 7 uses Internet Explorer to open GIFs by default (Photo Viewer [i]won't[/i] play animated ones). To restore this setting: Right-click on any GIF file, choose [b]Open With[/b] and then click on [b]Choose default program[/b]. Select [b]Internet Explorer[/b] from the recommended programs list and click [b]OK[/b].