Animated gifs not playing

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BroodjeGras

I recently did an upgrade on my pc and re-installed Win XP
Pro because of some problems I had with the new hardware.
My new system specs are:

Athlon 2700
512 MB DDR memory
Radeon 9600 graphics card

Now all of a sudden animated gifs (e.g. emoticons on
message boards) are no longer playing, even if I save them
and open them with another program than IE or Mozilla.
Sometimes also jpeg files will not appear while I'm browsing.

Can anybody help me out here, because I'm completely in the
dark?

TIA
 
See if deleting Temporary Internet Files (IE Tools>Internet Options>General)
helps at all.
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I deleted all temp files, cookies and the history and
things are still the same
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See if deleting Temporary Internet Files (IE
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Tools>Internet Options>General)
 
BroodjeGras said:
I recently did an upgrade on my pc and re-installed Win XP
Pro because of some problems I had with the new hardware.
My new system specs are:

Athlon 2700
512 MB DDR memory
Radeon 9600 graphics card

Now all of a sudden animated gifs (e.g. emoticons on
message boards) are no longer playing, even if I save them
and open them with another program than IE or Mozilla.
Sometimes also jpeg files will not appear while I'm browsing.

Can anybody help me out here, because I'm completely in the
dark?

TIA
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FWIW. I had some of those animated gifs and wanted them to appear larger.
I opened them with PaintShopPro and resampled them larger and saved them
with the same filename. They no longer were animated. It seems the
standard .gif is different than the animated .gifs. I later found I could
solve the problem by inserting the small animated gifs the way they were.
Then I could click and drag them to a larger size. That way I lost a little
of the detail but it kept the animation.
 
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