Problems saving pictures

[Guest]

Recently when saving pictures to "My Pictures" I noticed for some reason it
saves them as BITMAP only which takes up a large amount of space on my hard
drive. It does not give me the option to use JPG (or JPEG) as it did before.
How can I change this back to either JPG or JPEG?
I am running Windows XP Professional Ed.

 

[Yves Alarie]

Easy to fix. Go to the following site, bottom of the page and follow
directions:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupfaq.mspx

 

[Guest]

Yves...you are amazing...thank you so much for your help!
You just took most of the stress out of my day!

Just out of curiosity, do you know the reason behind why that happens? I
have never had that occur before.

Have a Great day!
frappe

 

[Yves Alarie]

It happens because you run out of space allocated for the internet temporary
files.
You can automate this deletion and the problem will never come back. In IE6,
click on Tools and Internet options. Click on the Advanced tab of the
opening window and scroll down to Security and check the box "Delete
internet files when closing browser".

 

[Paul Ballou]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=931
If you don't want to do as Yves suggested download Cache Sentry from here
and it will help manage IE's cache.
--
Paul Ballou
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Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
control.

 

[Yves Alarie]

Hi Paul. Do you actually use this software? I am aware of it but never used
it. Always scared of "add on" unless somebody tells me they use it and no
interference with XP.

 

[Paul Ballou]

Hi Yves,
I use it and IE's Cache never gets bigger than 10MB in size and the BMP
problem never occurs. You will need to launch it every time you start your
computer unless you place a shortcut in Start | Programs | Startup folder.

If you decide to try it checkout this program.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4083.html
X-Setup pro is also another good program. It allows you to tweak XP.
--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/templates
http://office.microsoft.com/home

Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
control.

 

[Yves Alarie]

Thank you for the info.

Hi Yves,
I use it and IE's Cache never gets bigger than 10MB in size and the BMP
problem never occurs. You will need to launch it every time you start your
computer unless you place a shortcut in Start | Programs | Startup folder.

If you decide to try it checkout this program.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4083.html
X-Setup pro is also another good program. It allows you to tweak XP.
--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/templates
http://office.microsoft.com/home

Control the things you can and Don't Worry about the things you can't
control.

 

[szillygirl]

It didn't work, I've been at this for days, b/c most of
my work is graphics.

Somewhere, after a recent update, my file associations
defaulted to MSPaint and I had to manually restore each
association, but IE will not recognize the preferred
graphics programs, and defaults to .bmp.

My PC is clean, all my tmp/temp files, recycle bin,
cache, cookies, have been stripped clean. I keep my
history files limited to one day, and empty my cache
daily. I have also defragged a couple days ago, and ran
chkdisk.

What am I missing?
How do I get it back. I did System Restore, the first
time I encountered this, and went back a few days, but no
effect.

Very frustrated.

 

[szillygirl]

I don't want to add apps and programs. I want to make
the OS work the way it's supposed to work.

I did try moving my pagefile to D, and doubled the size
to 4gb, but it hasn't changed my .bmp problem. I
probably didn't need to do that anyway, b/c I have 47GB
feespace on C: And I have 1GB ram. This is not a memory
problem. I keep all my temp files empty, everywhere. I
never save history, cookies, cache, recycle bin ...
nothing.

This is a file association problem. And I need to FIX IT.

Should I go somewhere else?