I've noticed that the last few days (starting with the 'realistic candle flame' thread, that every time I right-click or file click to save an image, it's saved as a .bmp. Then, in Explorer, I double click the perfectly good thumbnail and (Microsoft Photo Editor) can't open the file. I open it with IrfanView, and it resaves it as a .jpg. Is there some WinXP setting that I misadjusted that incorrectly saves images off the web? I seem to be getting this a lot lately. Even changing the extention in Explorer doesn't help...

Try changing the .bmp to .jpg......works for me. I seem to remember them saying that they were going to something to the images to stop them being d/l and copied for illegal uses , or something like that.......

i dunno but something usefull might be the "save any images" hack for IE http://www.escapetwice.cjb.net/ Take the link above,then click on the "Save Any Images" link on the left,then drag the link thats in the middle of the webpage to your links or favorites folder in IE.It lets you save any image regardless of the disabled right click option some sites use.

When ever my computer starts only saving as BMP, I clear out the cache and it starts saving JPG's again. Just a thought.

Drawbridgep is right. Clear out the Temporary Internet files, and restart IE.

Here's what I do if I want to grab an image. Rather than save it to disc,I right click the image then go copy& paste into PSP or from clipboard in Photoshop. Then you can do whatever to the image and save .I only do this because it keeps me from forgetting a bunch of images on HD. If right click is disabled on the page you can hold the left mouse down while at the same time doing the right click. Kind of a sequence thing that takes a few times to get right.

All of the above.... Bryce will save as .bmp or .jpg at max quality. Cache is a good idea to clear.

Sometimes I want to save as a bmp, sometimes as a jpg, at the bottom of the window where it say s filetype just select jpg, I've never had to clean the cache to change filetypes when saving, just need to pay attention to the filetype when saving is all....

What Zhann said, me too.

Attached Link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810978

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. This was starting to worry me that it was the side-effect of some sort of virus. I did find it weird that changing the extention in windows explorer didn't work. The bug must be adding some code to the image header. Thx again!