Copying photos

[Diz123]

To the best of my knowledge, I have not changed any
settings, however,every time I copy a photo from email or
the internet, it gets saved as a bmp file regardless of
what the original format is (ie jpg, gif) what has
happened and how do I copy in its original format?

 

[Guest]

I am wondering about the wording you used "copy" a photo?
how are you saving the files? Try just right clicking the
image, then select save picture as.. then check what the
default format is before you save the file.

 

[dev]

/Diz123/ said:

To the best of my knowledge, I have not changed any
settings, however,every time I copy a photo from email or
the internet, it gets saved as a bmp file regardless of
what the original format is (ie jpg, gif) what has
happened and how do I copy in its original format?

Delete TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES (including all off-line content), in
Control Panel|INTERNET OPTIONS.

 

[Alex Nichol]

To the best of my knowledge, I have not changed any
settings, however,every time I copy a photo from email or
the internet, it gets saved as a bmp file regardless of
what the original format is (ie jpg, gif) what has
happened and how do I copy in its original format?

This happens if the indexes of the Temporary Internet Files get
overloaded. In Control Panel - Internet Options, in the temporary
Internet files section on the General page, click 'Delete files'. Then
I suggest click Settings and reduce the space allowed - 50 MB is
probably generous, and on big drives it tends to choose by default a
setting that is so high that this overload happens