Athlonite Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 does anyone know how to get the win7 picture preview proggy to play my animated gifs it's rather annoying having to open them in IE all the time this used to work for XP and Vista but win7 seems to have knackerd the picture preview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 You cannot. The Windows Photo Viewer doesn't supported animated GIFs. Not sure if Live Photo Gallery does, you could try downloading that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggers Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I asked this yesterday but got no response(low post count probably), anyway ended up using IrfanView Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted May 14, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 14, 2009 The Windows Photo Viewer on Windows Vista cannot display animated GIFs either. It was only XP's Windows Picture and Fax Viewer that supported animated GIFs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scowl Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 why the **** would microsoft not let the preview view animated gifs? it's god damn annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I know. I have no idea why they didn't implement support for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.r9 Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Yeah it's pretty stupid considering that a previous OS did it by default, but what can we say? Anyway, if you want to see the .gif's, use irfanView or, my personal favorite, XnView. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlonite Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 yeah i pretty much thought the same thing live is no go picture preview is a no go why should we have to use a third party app for something that been done since win95a it just like the networking in the rc, 7000 worked fine with mixed os's but no ms go and change it and now you gotta just through hoops to get it to work :pc: bah ms if i isn't broken leave it alone @mr r9 yeah im usin xnview right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 (edited) <snipped> It doesn't. Space presses whatever button is highlighted, but nothing else. It's stupid, as is the inability to use the scroll wheel for anything (like volume). Edited May 15, 2009 by John S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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