.jpg vs. .gif vs. .art graphic files issue

[Gates]

I'm working with three machines, two with the same version
of Win 2K and one with 98. When right-clicking an image,
I'm prompted to save with one 2K as .gif, the other 2K
as .jpg and the 98 as .art. How can I control this?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Through file associations. Basically by associating a given file extension
with a registered file type. The easiest method would be to; while in
Explorer, right-click (or shift-right-click depending on OS) on a file of
the type in question, then choose "Open With", "Choose Program", then choose
and check the box for "Always use this program....."

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| I'm working with three machines, two with the same version
| of Win 2K and one with 98. When right-clicking an image,
| I'm prompted to save with one 2K as .gif, the other 2K
| as .jpg and the 98 as .art. How can I control this?
|

 

[Guest]

Thank you. This I know about. I haven't been clear
enough. When surfing the Web, if I want to grab an image,
I right click it. Then I can save it, but the SAME file
name defaults to either .jpg, .gif or .art depending upon
which machine I'm using. This is what I'd like to
control, or am I not understanding something?

 

[Dave Patrick]

You might want to ask this one in an IE group.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


| Thank you. This I know about. I haven't been clear
| enough. When surfing the Web, if I want to grab an image,
| I right click it. Then I can save it, but the SAME file
| name defaults to either .jpg, .gif or .art depending upon
| which machine I'm using. This is what I'd like to
| control, or am I not understanding something?

 

[Dan Seur]

If you are downloading files that do not have extensions in their names
on the target server, it's possible that your downloader on each machine
is set to apply a default ext, and the 3 defaults are different. But I'm
not familiar with the MS browser you're using, this idea may be way off
base, and what Dave suggests about posting to the other newsgroup is
very good advice if the above (or something like it) is not the case.

I occasionally receive emailed images without extensions, and wonder why
people don't use them. It may be a MAC thing, or a captive audience of
some kind (I'm not an antiMAC bigot; I see it sometimes in emails from
MAC-based friends). But a good image viewer often doesn't care what the
..ext says or whether there is one; it looks in the file and opens it
correctly regardless. The problem is determining that it's an image file
in the first place, which involves using notepad.

 

[xe77]

This is most likely caused by a browser plug-in.
Clear out your "Downloaded Program Files" folder.

-----Original Message-----
Thank you. This I know about. I haven't been clear
enough. When surfing the Web, if I want to grab an image,
I right click it. Then I can save it, but the SAME file
name defaults to either .jpg, .gif or .art depending upon
which machine I'm using. This is what I'd like to
control, or am I not understanding something?

-----Original Message-----
Through file associations. Basically by associating a given file extension
with a registered file type. The easiest method would be to; while in
Explorer, right-click (or shift-right-click depending on OS) on a file of
the type in question, then choose "Open With", "Choose Program", then choose
and check the box for "Always use this program....."

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| I'm working with three machines, two with the same version
| of Win 2K and one with 98. When right-clicking an image,
| I'm prompted to save with one 2K as .gif, the other 2K
| as .jpg and the 98 as .art. How can I control this?
|


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