Windows 98, IE 6 only saving pictures as bitmaps?

[Y2k_UG 0]

I reformatted my PC a couple months ago and since am having this problem.....

 

Whenever I try to save a picture, I'm forced to save it as a bitmap- there is no varying option for a jpg or a gif. I can change it later but it's becoming an inconvenience since saving animated gifs is no longer possible.

 

Is there some setting I can change to allow this or is it some weird IE bug?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[zen69x 0]

Empty your browser cache and then go back and try again.

[iq454 0]

there is no option to save as jpeg, because the file youre downloadnig is a bitmap file...if the file is a jpeg, then it can be saved as either, but if its a bmp then it can only be saved as that and edited later.

 

IE doesn't handle uncompreesed-compressed, bmp-jpeg, only jpeg-bmp. bmp is an uncompressed file, jepg is compressed, meaning it can be both, and IE can handle that..that's why jpeg's can be saved as bmp also, because all it does is uncompress it.

[zen69x 0]

while what iq454 says is indeed true, what I had said earlier is a likely culprit and a well known issue.

 

Read http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810978 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;260650 for more info.