Internet Explorer saving only as bmp

jw1778,

When you save a picture in IE your choice is either in the original file format (.gif, .jpf, .png, etc) or as a .bmp file. If you are attemtping to save the image file and only the .bmp choice appears, it may be that is the original image format. To check, right-click on my icon flag image, choose save picture as and you should have a choice to save as either .gif or .bmp from the drop down menu. That is normally the choices you have. If you want to change to a different compressed image format, you will need a graphics program to do so.

Original format is jpg, not bmp, however the only option for saving in the dropdown menu is bmp. Up until 2 days ago it worked fine with jpg or bmp as options. Is there a place for stttings. I could save as bmp and convert in Photopaint, but a lot more work. Thanks

See if this link helps.

Dan Manley wrote:
- Normally, just dumping the TIF cache will correct
- this in IE.

That was the first suggestion in the link ;<).

Normally, just dumping the TIF cache will correct this in IE.

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this is good to know..i read that realplayer can change settings to cause this.

I've run into this several times - what I do is just add the ,jpg extension to the filename in the save box and it ends up being saved in jpg format (at least that's the way it shows up in detailed file listing and appears to be opened as such by all of my picture viewing and editing tools - ACDSee, CompuPic Pro, Photoshop).

Dave Sparks

Cleared the TIF and everything is working as befroe. Thanks for all the great advice.

Dumping the IE cache is the usual way to resolve this. It's been a problem for years with IE and Microsoft still can't fix the problem. Sad, really. It's a simple problem and they just can't or won't fix it.