animated gifs and windows photo viewer

corgano said:

I WANT MY GIFS said:

Bongo said:

Here you go Gary

When I right click on an image & open with "Windows Photo & Fax Viewer" I get this message:



I installed it & then uninstalled it & then installed it again. What am I doing wrong? what do I need to delete or re-download?
I also tried goofwear's method, it also won't work.

That's very interesting. Can you double check that the compatibility settings are correct? go to "%SystemRoot%\gif" and right click -> properties on the rundll.exe, screenshot the compatibility tab.

same problem for me there is no rundll.exe in %SystemRoot%\gif. what to do?

No error when installing? or opening an image

@ no rundll.exe, odd. try uninstalling / reinstalling it, or copying rundll.exe form windows into the windows\gif folder

uninstalled and re installed. no error while installing. jpgs opening but same problem for gif.
can't find rundll.exe in windows also

copy the rundll form windows into the windows\gif folder, right click, properties, compatibility, windowx xp, ok

The installer should do this for you with 'FileInstall("rundll32.exe",$path&"\rundll32.exe",1)'

Actually, I thought I changed that to 'Filecopy("%windir%\rundll32.exe",$path&"\rundll32.exe",1)' so it would just copy it. Anyways, copying it into the windows\gif folder and changing the compatibility should work. Let me know

thanks its working now

Thanks for the re-write of the original coder's program. But is there a reason as to why an animated gif that plays at normal speed in IE is slow in his/your programs, in regular or slideshow view mode?

So I've got this installed and running great (thanks a ton!), but had a question:

Gifs are now animated, but only if I tell Windows to open it with "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer", not "Windows Photo Viewer". No problem, I just made that the default program. However, my end goal is to have one photo viewer for common image types (jpeg, png, etc.) and I can't seem to assign "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" as the default program for non-gif images. If I choose "open with" on a jpeg or png, Picture and Fax Viewer isn't an option, only Photo Viewer.

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

It should be possible, sure. Next time I feel in the mood for some code I'll add a window to select what kinds of images to associate with it

corgano said:

copy the rundll form windows into the windows\gif folder, right click, properties, compatibility, windowx xp, ok

The installer should do this for you with 'FileInstall("rundll32.exe",$path&"\rundll32.exe",1)'

Actually, I thought I changed that to 'Filecopy("%windir%\rundll32.exe",$path&"\rundll32.exe",1)' so it would just copy it. Anyways, copying it into the windows\gif folder and changing the compatibility should work. Let me know

I really don't understand this, can you give me a step by step on what to do to fix this?

This is what you need. DND Photo Viewer, was written specially for viewing GIF, but you can use it quite that same as Windows Default Photo Viewer.



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