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Bill Martin

We have two machines, both with XP Home and IE6, and both with the latest
updates from Microsoft. In theory they're the same software setup on both.

I just noticed however that on machine 1 if I right click on a displayed
photo and tell it to save the picture to disk, it uses JPG format. Machine 2
uses BMP, As I look closer, I see that machine 1 has a drop down menu on the
save panel that lets me chose JPG or BMP. Machine 2 only has BMP on that
drop down.

After going through the various profile panels, I don't see that there is any
control in IE to set picture storage formats.

Is this an IE issue or somehow an XP issue?

Thanks....

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)
 
Hi Bill,

This problem occurs if the Temporary Internet Files are full. Clear the
temporary internet files.

1. Start Internet Explorer
2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Under Temporary Internet files, click Delete Files.
5. When you are prompted to delete all temporary Internet files, click OK.

Internet Explorer Does Not Save Graphics Files in the Proper Format
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260650

Internet Explorer Saves Images As Bitmaps (.bmp Files)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810978

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We have two machines, both with XP Home and IE6, and both with the latest
updates from Microsoft. In theory they're the same software setup on both.

I just noticed however that on machine 1 if I right click on a displayed
photo and tell it to save the picture to disk, it uses JPG format. Machine
2
uses BMP, As I look closer, I see that machine 1 has a drop down menu on
the
save panel that lets me chose JPG or BMP. Machine 2 only has BMP on that
drop down.

After going through the various profile panels, I don't see that there is
any
control in IE to set picture storage formats.

Is this an IE issue or somehow an XP issue?

Thanks....

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)
 
This problem occurs if the Temporary Internet Files are full. Clear the
temporary internet files.
Click to expand...

You were absolutely right. It's curious that both machines had infinite
empty space on the disk and neither one has ever had that cache deleted
before. The one which failed was set for a default temporary files space of
1200MB while the one which never failed was set for just 124MB. I've set
them both for 500MB now to see what happens.

Thanks for the pointers....

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)
 
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