Yet again, why won't animated .gif's animate?

WoodyTrombone,

In IE go to Tools|Internet Options|Advanced tab and make sure "Play animations in Web pages" is checked under Multimedia.

Are you on dial-up? If so, do you use a web accelerator? Web accelerators usually don't display gifs as animated.

With Earthlink, you can right-click a gif (or any image) in IE, and choose "refresh picture with full quality".

Or, disable your accelerator, if you have one.

Other than that, I don't know.

BTW, plugins won't make any difference with animated gifs. (unless it's a plugin that disables and enables them, which I am not aware of).

Nah, I have good 'ol cable. There's got to be some setting or some stupid program that disables my animated gif's... I just don't know how to access it or whatev. Thanks though.

Ok, do you have an internet security program? I assume some programs stifle moving ads.

I don't know if this was mentioned, but did you try clearing your temporary internet files?

I had a program that stopped moving gifs and marquees.

Also, try saving the gif, and then choose "open with" and choose "windows picture and fax viewer" And check "Always use the selected program to open this type of file" Click OK.

Then go to the website with gifs again, and see if that helps.

Good luck!!

Nice try, but it was already checked...

Well, Zone Alarm doesn't really care if ads take over my computer or not...

Temporary Internet had nothing but a .DAT file in it

Well, according to this (admittedly old) post, it could be ZA (pro):

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread10098.html

 

You could also see if anything here helps:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=6f3dce3148646c1a0784eea41544e6f4&showtopic=326715&pid=586003970&st=0&#entry586003970

and several other hits after googling for animated gif don't animate IE

Holy mess.

Wow I'm stupid. Thanks man.