File extentions

[wayne bansemer]

How can I add a extention to my files to save/
when I click on file save as: all I get is a .bmp How can I add .jpg amd
..gif extentions to these to save as?
Thank-you
Wayne

 

[Newbie Coder]

Wayne,

Is this in MS Paint?

http://www.geocities.com/one_human/advanced.html#mspaint_fix

 

[wayne bansemer]

What I do is click on a picture in my e-mail and right click it then save
as: but all i get is save as a .bmp. What I want to do is add somehow , so
that when I click ON SAVE AS i have a choice of .jpg, .gif. and .bmp/

 

[Devil_Himself]

Internet Explorer does not save graphics files in the proper format
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260650/en-us

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How can I add a extention to my files to save/
when I click on file save as: all I get is a .bmp How can I add .jpg amd
.gif extentions to these to save as?

You haven't said where you're trying to do this, but making some
assumptions, the following is likely the issue:

A file's extension describes its format. If you have a .bmp file and
simply save it as a jpg file, all you will have accomplished is
changing its name. The format will remain the same. The result will be
that you have a bmp file erroneously described as a jpg file. If you
then try to open it in some graphics program, the program will think
it's a jpg file and then, totally misunderstanding how the file is
formatted, either fail to open it at all, or produce garbage.

So the reason you can't save it with the wrong extension is that you
are protected against making that mistake. If you want to change a bmp
file to a jpg or gif file, what you need to do is read it in some
program that permits converting graphics formats from one file to
another, and save it in the new format from there.

 

[~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:.]

From what I gather this is the way the file is sent to you. You said you
receive it in a email. Which means the sender is sending it as a .bmp and
therefor that will be your only option to save it as since that is the
format. Tell the sender of the files to save the files as .jpg or whatever
format you wish.

It is on their end not your that the problem lies. You can only save the
file in the format it is sent since it is in a email. It is was on the web
that is the save thing. Right click on a file and choose save as. It will
only give you the option to save it as the file it is offered in. You can
change it but that is your action that is required from the web. From a
email you do not have the option to do this.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

How can I add a extention to my files to save/
when I click on file save as: all I get is a .bmp How can I add .jpg amd
.gif extentions to these to save as?
Thank-you
Wayne

That happens when the Temporary Internet Files are too full. In IE click
Tools | Internet Options. Click Delete Files in the Temporary Internet
files section of the General tab. On the next window place a check mark in
the box to Delete all offline content.

If that doesn't fix it, go to Tools | Internet Options | Advanced and scroll
down to the Security section. Uncheck "Do not save encrypted pages to
disk".

Click Start/Run and type this command to fix the 'Content Type' settings:

regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
(and/or)
regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll (for WinXP)