Vista - Animated Gifs

The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that I've
got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't be
able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
application to display the animations?

I use IE for viewing animated gifs.

Dale

"techienoob" <techienoob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6AADFEC-F076-49D9-A5BA-9024C2297789@microsoft.com...
> The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
> animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that
> I've
> got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
> only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
> when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't
> be
> able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
> application to display the animations?

Windows Photo Gallery does not support animated gifs, unfortunately. IE7,
or another graphics program can be set as default viewer for gifs.

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
"techienoob" <techienoob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6AADFEC-F076-49D9-A5BA-9024C2297789@microsoft.com...
> The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
> animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that
> I've
> got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
> only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
> when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't
> be
> able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
> application to display the animations?

Open it with Internet Explorer and it should open and view the animated GIF.

Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com



techienoob wrote:
> The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
> animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that I've
> got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
> only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
> when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't be
> able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
> application to display the animations?

Do you have any advice on which program I should use? The work I do with
them makes viewing them in a slideshow, as was possible with XP, practically
a necessity.

Thanks =D

"Jane C" wrote:

> Windows Photo Gallery does not support animated gifs, unfortunately. IE7,
> or another graphics program can be set as default viewer for gifs.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> "techienoob" <techienoob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A6AADFEC-F076-49D9-A5BA-9024C2297789@microsoft.com...
> > The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
> > animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that
> > I've
> > got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
> > only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
> > when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't
> > be
> > able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
> > application to display the animations?
>

This was exactly going to be my queton, gifs not displaying in Windows Photo
Gallery - I remember ome video with some MS employee goign on about the
gallery playing videos and how we would all go "wow" from the videos we ll
forgot about...hmmm...it doesn't play gifs, I bet Jobs is pissing himself!

"Jane C" wrote:

> Windows Photo Gallery does not support animated gifs, unfortunately. IE7,
> or another graphics program can be set as default viewer for gifs.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> "techienoob" <techienoob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A6AADFEC-F076-49D9-A5BA-9024C2297789@microsoft.com...
> > The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
> > animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that
> > I've
> > got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
> > only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
> > when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't
> > be
> > able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
> > application to display the animations?
>

I was looking on here to ask the same question. Is there any other way to
view the gif images. For personal reasons, I will not use IE for any
reasons. It is kinda dumb for them to have allow a picture program to show
an animated picture.

While I could list a whole bunch of things wrong with Vista that is making
Jobs see dollar signs, I doubt seriously that Photo Gallery not playing
animated gifs is one of those.

Dale

"Samuel" <Samuel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97C30EE5-D14D-4EDF-AC44-30791AE06DF9@microsoft.com...
> This was exactly going to be my queton, gifs not displaying in Windows
> Photo
> Gallery - I remember ome video with some MS employee goign on about the
> gallery playing videos and how we would all go "wow" from the videos we ll
> forgot about...hmmm...it doesn't play gifs, I bet Jobs is pissing himself!
>
> "Jane C" wrote:
>
>> Windows Photo Gallery does not support animated gifs, unfortunately.
>> IE7,
>> or another graphics program can be set as default viewer for gifs.
>>
>> --
>> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
>> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
>> "techienoob" <techienoob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A6AADFEC-F076-49D9-A5BA-9024C2297789@microsoft.com...
>> > The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
>> > animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now
>> > that
>> > I've
>> > got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are
>> > displaying
>> > only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between
>> > towers
>> > when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I
>> > won't
>> > be
>> > able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
>> > application to display the animations?
>>

Ok... Use FireFox to view gifs.

Dale

"Michelle" <Michelle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CFD5510E-6DFF-4191-BF9A-99AA705BBC1F@microsoft.com...
>
>
> I was looking on here to ask the same question. Is there any other way to
> view the gif images. For personal reasons, I will not use IE for any
> reasons. It is kinda dumb for them to have allow a picture program to
> show
> an animated picture.

What a silly thing to say, I know that - Vista defaults to that! What I am
saying is that it should open the gif and animate it in photo viewer - I
don't care if its not photo quality!

"Dustin Harper" wrote:

> Open it with Internet Explorer and it should open and view the animated GIF.
>
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>
>
> techienoob wrote:
> > The picture viewing application on XP Pro and Home allowed viewing of
> > animated .gif files, displaying the active animation. However, now that I've
> > got Vista running on a different computer, those same files are displaying
> > only as still images. I'm forced to switch back and forth between towers
> > when I use these files (projects for work and the like), but soon I won't be
> > able to switch towers so easily. Is there any way to get the vista
> > application to display the animations?
>