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Weinermr

Friday, May 31, 2002 - 10:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Car, since you won't accept monetary assistance, this may aid in reducing the water retention.
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Buttercup

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weiner is ever so helpful! Weiner, perhaps you could help poor Juju out as well?

Weinermr

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 07:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Buttercup, I don't know if I can help Juju.
Hmmmmmmmm............

Perhaps some stretching exercises are in order....

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Tess

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahahahahah!!!!

Buttercup

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahahahahhahahaha, looks like a bit of middle section sag there.

Whoami

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 02:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Nothing major, just annoying.

I downloaded a trial version of PaintShop Pro, so I could make a few custom avatars for another discussion group I visit (hard to believe I'd have time to visit somewhere else!).

Anyway, I inadvertantly allowed it to change all my gif, bmp, jpeg files into some kind of PaintShopPro File. I fiddled around a got them back to being thier own types of files. But now my animated gifs won't animate when I click on them to view them (they animate when I upload to a site like here, but not on my own computer to view the animation). They are being opened with QuickTime Picture Viewer (which I believe said it is for still pictures). I think they used to be opened with something connected to IE.

How do I get them to open and animate? Right now, I can open Media Player, then browse around for the file I want to view. But it is rather time consuming.

Faerygdds

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 04:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami... it depends on what OS version you are using, but try this...

Right click on the file and select open with. Check off the box at the bottom that says something about always open with this program.
Scroll through the list and select Internet Explorer. then click ok or open (not sure which it is).

That should do it :)

Ryn

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 08:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Faery's solution is the same I would try, chances are you also installed Quick Time and when you installed it you allowed it to associate itself with gifs, jpegs, etc.

It really has not "Changed" them, it has just told the OS that it is to use the quicktime viewer when opening these types of files.

Whoami

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 10:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have Windows 98 SE.

I already tried your solution. But when I right click on a gif file, it does not give me a "open with" option. It just says "Open." I click that, and of course it opens with quicktime. Since Quictime already has a "hold" on these files, it doesn't give me an option to open it with something else.

What I didn't make clear in last night's post is, the file does when I click, but it opens (with Quictime) to a still picture.

So, what I'm looking for is a way to change it from opening with quicktime to IE.

Whoami

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 11:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea! I figured it out. All I had to do is read the Windows Help File a little more closely.

Ryn

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 - 12:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ohhhh - that falls into the rtfm catagory ;)

glad you got it fixed!!!! :)

Whit4you

Wednesday, June 26, 2002 - 10:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How to change which programs opens a various type of file:

Double click (not right click) on the computer Icon on your desktop

Hit View - then Folder Options then the File Type tab.

Scroll down the list till you find the extention your looking for (like .gif) if you find it hit EDIT and browse for the program you want to open this extention from now on.

If you dont find it on the list then hit New Type and add it in

(holler if you need the baby steps to do the last part)

Faerygdds

Wednesday, June 26, 2002 - 11:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry my instructions didn't help, but they work for Windows ME and up... :)

Whit's is the best way to do it for Windows 98 (all versions)

And if you are still using Windows 95... well.. I don't remember that far back.... :(

Lanzee

Monday, July 01, 2002 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a question to ask you, guys! I have been so busy upgrading my computer before BB3 starts. So, I am asking what kind of motherboard should I buy? What brand? I would like to purchase the motherboard with cpu, too? Any advice??? Thanks alot!


U rock!
\lm/

Ryn

Monday, July 01, 2002 - 10:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Shameless plug.....

newegg.com is where I bought almost all my stuff for my last computer (back in November).

The users there rate everything with comments (pro and con).

Check it out, and though shipping sounds high, it goes down when you combine items, so you can't add up the shipping for each, its usually not bad at all when you total it up.

Of course you might have better access to computer part places than I do ;) But its still a great place to look for info on Motherboards, etc.