animated gifs and windows photo viewer

@polarwind

IE draws it's GIFs each fram over the other without releasing the resources for the one under it, making it VERY inefficient and causing lag. I have no idea why microsoft thought this was a good idea.

The reason it wouldn't work is because you already specified the program to open gifs, and windows won't accept the SAME EXE NAME if it's in a new location. rename the exe and it will overwrite the previous value, allowing you to use it.

Thanks I needed this
I'm new to win 7 and miss the way XP did some things

I joined just so I could thank corgano;
thank you so much corgano. You've made my pc experience easier and more enjoyable.

corgano said:

Try putting out the idea to make a codec for WIC to support animated gifs

I also made this because IE took to long to start up.
gifview.exe
Set This as the default program to view gif images. It is written in GDI+, so you can expect the same level functionality as the onw in win XP. As it was written by me, I can taylor it to suit your needs. Source available on request

Registered only to thank corgano for this excellent tool and to express my disbelief that this does not work in vista and windows 7.

Thank you corgano, this program is exactly what I needed. To give thanks, I've made a hi-res version of the icon if anyone wants to use it.

Another person joining to say 'thanks!'

corgano said:

Try putting out the idea to make a codec for WIC to support animated gifs

I also made this because IE took to long to start up.
gifview.exe
Set This as the default program to view gif images. It is written in GDI+, so you can expect the same level functionality as the onw in win XP. As it was written by me, I can taylor it to suit your needs. Source available on request

I've been looking for a solution like this, thank you so much for this!
I literally just joined this forum to thank you. This has made the Windows 7 experience so much better. THANKS!

Googled animated gif viewer for Win 7 and got this - it WORKS - registered as a user to say THANK YOU!!!!!!

I joined just to say thanks so much corgano!