Solved animated gifs and windows photo viewer

[corgano]

@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.

 

[dollwear702]

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

 

[wosloy]

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

 

[LuckyLuigi]

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.

 

[CentauriBoy]

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.

 

[czol]

Another person joining to say 'thanks!'

 

[TheGoldenGoat]

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!

 

[boohbah]

welcome to seven forums ,stick around there is a hell of a lot more can be learned here
check out the tutorials click the link at the top of your page.

 

[Parky]

Thanks

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

 

[Vanquish]

I joined just to say thanks so much corgano!

 

[Thermalk]

I just registered too to thank corgano, great work.

 

[Wolfzoon]

Awesome program, see this thread too.

I am already the 26th person to make an account to thank you, your program is just magnificently googleable
Also on this forum, and related, is This Thread, which is about making the windows photo viewer display the animation instead of getting a different program. I trust this .exe to work in newer/older Windows versions too though, so keeping it for just that.

 

[corgano]

Checked, it's legit. Apparently someone actually got around to just copying and pasting the image viewer from windows XP, and then write a registry patch for it. That is literally what this is. You could even open all images with it if you wanted to feel like you're using XP

I thought of doing this before, but I was a bit busy at the time and forgot about it. It's nice to see someone else got around to it.

Bottom line: It's clean, it's simple, I like it.

 

[Forsiller]

Thank you !

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

EDIT
Someone decided to take the windows XP image viewer, wrap it in an installer, and release it as a patch. Wolfzoon was the one who showed me it, props to him
http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pictures-video/97830-windows-7-gif-viewer-works-perfectly.html
I've looked over it, it seems clean and runs just like it did on XP. This is a much MUCH better option.

Works perfectly!
- You don't have to install anything. Run gifview.exe, it does nothing.
- But what you do is you simply locate the file "gifview.exe" when you choose your
- standard program for opening gif images

 

[anny]

Thank you!

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

EDIT
Someone decided to take the windows XP image viewer, wrap it in an installer, and release it as a patch. Wolfzoon was the one who showed me it, props to him
http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pictures-video/97830-windows-7-gif-viewer-works-perfectly.html
I've looked over it, it seems clean and runs just like it did on XP. This is a much MUCH better option.

I'm yet another member that must say: Thank you corgano

 

[PrzemekLeD]

Thank you, corgano.(yup, 1000'th person to thank you)

 

[KMan94]

I installed this and enabled the run32dll to be XP compatible. I am running Windows 7 32. Whenever I click on a gif, the UAC control dialog comes up. How can I stop that?

 

[darsb]

I wanted to ask corgano or anyone else, if they could upload the gifview.exe somewhere again because when I try to download it, it says the file has been removed and I can't find it anywhere else.

 

[KMan94]

I've got the file

I've still got the file if you need it. Just reply here.

 

[Brink]

I've still got the file if you need it. Just reply here.

Hello KMan,

If you like, you can go ahead and upload and attach the file here.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html