Viewing animated gif files with Vista

[AlanHo]

With Windows XP if you used explorer to browse files - .gif animated files
showed the animation in the viewing pane.

Vista just shows a still frame

Is there any way to set up Vista to view the animation.

 

[BillD]

With Windows XP if you used explorer to browse files - .gif animated files
showed the animation in the viewing pane.

Vista just shows a still frame

gif image is an obsolete format and for this reason it has been remove from
explorer.

 

[BillD]

With Windows XP if you used explorer to browse files - .gif animated files
showed the animation in the viewing pane.

Vista just shows a still frame

gif image is an obsolete format and for this reason it has been removed from
explorer.

 

[AlanHo]

Gif still seems to be a common file format for small animations like smilies
and signatures.

If it is now obsolete - what has taken its place that I can convert to...?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Animation is viewed when the file is opened in the default program for them,
Internet Explorer. Animation does not occur when the file is previewed
(either in explorer or the picture and fax viewer).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Dave]

You can view them with Internet Explorer, or a free program, like Irfanview.

 

[Robin]

However, the animation does show in the preview pane of Vista Windows Mail.

 

[Dave]

At least one (Incredimail elephant) does in mine.

 

[James David Byrne]

You have discovered yet another feature commonly used in XP that is not
properly implemented in Vista. I use Irfanview and associate .gif files with
that. I wonder if the XP File/Fax viewer can be somehow used in Vista? IMHO
it is far better than the kludge that it has now become.Anyone know what the
actual executable is? HTH James

 

[Rick Rogers]

It's not an executable, it's the function of a library (.dll) file. Also,
the XP version cannot be used in Vista, precisely because it too is a
function of an older version of that library file.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[James David Byrne]

Thanks Rick It's a pity. Myself and most of my users find the Vista
equivalent very unituitive and awkward compared to the XP viewer and it
won't work with some commonly used filetypes that worked perfectly before.
Hopefully MS will fix this broken functionality in a future SP.

James

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi James,

No offense intended, but I kind of think this is a bit funny. I recall quite
vividly that when XP was released a lot of people complained about its
Picture and Fax Viewer being the default for most image types. Now people
are complaining when it isn't. Just a non-sequiter....

Personally, I don't mind using either of them, and for better manipulation
of image files I go straight to Irfanview.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Tim Slattery]

With Windows XP if you used explorer to browse files - .gif animated files
showed the animation in the viewing pane.

Is there any way to set up Vista to view the animation.

www.irfanview.com

Excellent image viewer, totally free.

 

[kstar]

Im trying to figure out how to ask a question let alone ask the question! but
here goes, i might be a bit of a dummy, but why can i view the gif files that
i make in my emails i send and not able to put them on my desktop background
with vista?

 

[Dave]

Windows Explorer no longer shows animated gifs.

 

[Nick]

I don't think the original poster is talking about viewing these images in microsoft picture and fax viewer. I think they are talking about viewing them within windows explorer, in slide show mode. I too miss going through my animated gifs and viewing them animated right there. I hardly thing this format is obsolete when almost every web page, including this one, has them embedded within the content.

Nick

 

[Peter Foldes]

And which part of cyberspace did you come from