Solved animated gifs and windows photo viewer

[goku262002]

I'd rather not switch programs and just wait for corgano to get back to me.

 

[kenkorshin]

Maybe I missed something

I just right click and open with Windows Media Player. Win7 64

 

[TisIte]

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?

Copy run32dll.exe from either C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Windows\SysWOW64 (if you have x64) into C:\Windows\gif folder.

Then right click on the run32dll.exe and click on properties.
Goto the Compatibility tab, add a checkbox to "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
Choose Windows XP in the dropdown (Service Pack 3 worked for me).

As Darkwing said, this allows animated gifs in "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer", but not "Windows Photo Viewer"

 

[grits]

Sorry if I'm out of place with this question but kinda got lost trying to read all these pages. I'm not concerned with animated gifs but would love to have Windows Picture & Fax Viewer just 'cuz I liked the way it worked with my screen captures in XP. Is that possible & just how would I go about it?

Thanx,
grits

 

[Britton30]

It's been awhile, how did it work in XP that is different in w7, other than not playing animations?

 

[grits]

When I had XP I could do a scrolling screen capture of things like my list of Installed Programs or the list of items in Event Viewer & with Pic & Fax Viewer it would actually let me then scroll through the entire list. Now with the Photo Viewer in Windows 7, it will show the entire list but it's such small print I can hardly read it & the zoom in Photo Viewer just shows parts at a time. I hope this makes sense to you guys. I might have even saved an example shot that I could post here if that might help. I'll look for it after I post this much.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I use png for my screen shots. I found an example shot to post here. Had this been done with XP Viewer, it would have shown only down to 'Scanned Docs' but then had a scroll bar to see the rest.

 

[Britton30]

When you zoom in w7 picture viewer click the image and you can drag it with the cursor, up, down, sideways.

 

[grits]

Nope, tried that but still not what I'm looking for, Thanks anyway.

 

[corgano]

not sure what you mean grits

Also (finally) adding option to install for other image types as well.

 

[grits]

Thanks corgano for reply, hope I can explain it right. When I had XP I could take a screen shot of a window like this one where in order to read it all, you use the scroll button & the Windows Pic Viewer WOULD let me scroll but the new Windows 7 Photo Viewer won't, it's just all there in one window but not easy to read due to small size (my eyes are 69 yrs. old). I've tried the suggestions for zooming, etc. but really prefer the scrolling feature & was just wondering if I would be able to use what you've come up with for that.
I'm not too good at putting my thoughts into words,sorry.

 

[Bongo]

Thanks corgano for reply, hope I can explain it right. When I had XP I could take a screen shot of a window like this one where in order to read it all, you use the scroll button & the Windows Pic Viewer WOULD let me scroll but the new Windows 7 Photo Viewer won't, it's just all there in one window but not easy to read due to small size (my eyes are 69 yrs. old). I've tried the suggestions for zooming, etc. but really prefer the scrolling feature & was just wondering if I would be able to use what you've come up with for that.
I'm not too good at putting my thoughts into words,sorry.

If you want something that scrolls try Moo0 Image Viewer 1.80 (Free)
About 1/2 way down the page @ http://www.moo0.com/?top=http://www.moo0.com/software/ImageViewer/ Be carefull when installing it will try to install extras.

Jerry

 

[corgano]

Ahh. I know what you mean, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (getting really good at typing that) in XP moved the page up and down when you scrolled. Win 7 + it zooms in or out, which seems counter intuitive. Why they didn't make scroll move it up and down, alt+scroll move it left and right, and ctrl+scroll zoom in and out is beyond me

This will behave exactly like windows XP's image viewer did, so yes. It should be what you're looking for

 

[corgano]

Be carefull when installing it will try to install extras.

Jerry

Pet peeve: When software installs unwanted add-ons by default.

If I wanted it, I would install it myself: no java I do NOT want ask toolbar. If I ever design a web browser I will make it impossible for external programs to install additional crap without explicit permission.
And if you want to distribute something with your software, don't make it included by default. People who write their installers with spamware that install by default should be shot

grr..

 

[grits]

Finally, someone besides me gets it!! It's been beyond me too!! Thank you!!!!!!

Sooo, is it ready or are you still polishing it up?

 

[grits]

Be carefull when installing it will try to install extras.

Jerry

Pet peeve: When software installs unwanted add-ons by default.

If I wanted it, I would install it myself: no java I do NOT want ask toolbar. If I ever design a web browser I will make it impossible for external programs to install additional crap without explicit permission.
And if you want to distribute something with your software, don't make it included by default. People who write their installers with spamware that install by default should be shot

grr..

oops, we were typing at the same time but I agree wholeheartedly on unwanted & because of that, I won't even give that site a chance. I am careful tho' about watching for add-ons when I do download things.

 

[brlasonny913]

Corgano, I installed your program, and on trying to open a .gif, I got an error

"Error lodaing C:\Windows\gif\shimgvw.dll

A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed"

Can you advise, please?

 

[grits]

don't hold your breath brlasonny913, corgano doesn't visit very often.

 

[brlasonny913]

Thanks, Grits. I found and installed another program that is working. If Corgano answers, it will still be interesting to see what might have been the problem, but it's not as critical now.

 

[Reckless1]

I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this application yet, as this thread is 16 pages long and counting. And it's way too early on a Sunday morning to wade through all the replies.

But, if it has not yet been mentioned, I think that Irfanview -- a free application -- is a great photo viewer for all kinds of file extensions. It does a great job in displaying animated gifs.

 

[Britton30]

Welcome to Seven Forum Reckless1. Irfan View was suggested but I installed this, http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pi...-gifs-windows-photo-viewer-4.html#post2402926 and works well.
Another good one, which I don't use is, Windows 7 Gif Viewer

Both are seamless and will display animated gifs easily.