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Aurora Star · 08-22-2002, 02:28 PM

For some reason anymore, if I'm on the internet and I want to save pictures it only let's me save it as BITMAP(.bmp). And when I goto My Documents and click on a picture to view it, I have Windows XP Professional and it usually opens in a new window. Now it opens in Paint. I went to the Microsoft website and after an hour of going back and forth, I get nothing. Can someone please help me with my problem, or at least tell me what's wrong, so I can attempt to fix it? Thank you.

IamA-BFG · 08-22-2002, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by Aurora Star
For some reason anymore, if I'm on the internet and I want to save pictures it only let's me save it as BITMAP(.bmp). And when I goto My Documents and click on a picture to view it, I have Windows XP Professional and it usually opens in a new window. Now it opens in Paint. I went to the Microsoft website and after an hour of going back and forth, I get nothing. Can someone please help me with my problem, or at least tell me what's wrong, so I can attempt to fix it? Thank you.

Okay,....this is kinda hard to explain quickly and cleanly. There could be multiple things going on. Now,....I'm not that familiar with WindowsXP, but I am a computer guy. Bitmaps open in MS-Paint because that is the program associated with that file type...............many different programs have associated file types........and this can be changed via the registry/Windows Explorer.

Now,........maybe Internet Explorer is only letting you save pictures to bitmap because some settings in your registry are screwed up, some dynamic link libraries are old (can't see how.....being it is WindowsXP you have), or you either changed some settings somewhere or they got changed for you, whether you like it or not.

Now,....I know this hasn't been much help,....but it is what is going on.

Let_Britney_Be · 08-22-2002, 02:39 PM

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Originally posted by LovesBritneyForeverG

Okay,....this is kinda hard to explain quickly and cleanly. There could be multiple things going on. Now,....I'm not that familiar with WindowsXP, but I am a computer guy. Bitmaps open in MS-Paint because that is the program associated with that file type...............many different programs have associated file types........and this can be changed via the registry/Windows Explorer.

Now,........maybe Internet Explorer is only letting you save pictures to bitmap because some settings in your registry are screwed up, some dynamic link libraries are old (can't see how.....being it is WindowsXP you have), or you either changed some settings somewhere or they got changed for you, whether you like it or not.

Now,....I know this hasn't been much help,....but it is what is going on.

hey could u help me out? my computer syays a .dll file is missing so i can't open movie maker anymore. i tried installing another program but it said soomething connected to it wasn't responding. what can i do??

shanon_ea · 08-22-2002, 03:10 PM

hmm.. im not a computer whiz by any means.. buttt...
when the file is open in paint, try clickin 'save as' then changing the file extension to jpeg or whatever...

Aurora Star · 08-22-2002, 03:29 PM

LovesBritneyForeverG, see the thing with opening the picture, before it used to open up in a special XP window, but a few days a go it started opening in Paint and I didn't touch anything.

IamA-BFG · 08-22-2002, 03:45 PM

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Originally posted by Aurora Star
LovesBritneyForeverG, see the thing with opening the picture, before it used to open up in a special XP window, but a few days a go it started opening in Paint and I didn't touch anything.

Yep,......and I said some system settings got changed. Sometimes Windows has a tendency to randomly change things. A clean install of WindowsXP should do the trick,....but that's maybe a bit too much.........up to you

To answer the person with the missing dynamic link library.......

you HAVE to find it somewhere..........try reinstalling software,........might have to reinstall Windows..............can try looking for it with some file sharing program...........but you can't necessarily trust files you get with those.

€arth Ångel · 08-22-2002, 04:53 PM

My computer only lets me save as .bmp and DOSEN'T let me have movie maker. Consider some of yourselves lucky!!!