I read an article that said if you loved Windows XP, you would hate W7.  But it went on to say how much more you will come to love W7.  NOT!  For years, I've been sending animated gifs that I created with Poser.  Now, recipients can't open them.  And I can't open gifs sent to me.  I did download irfan view, which gives me a backdoor method of opening these files.  But isn't there an easier way?  I have been totally frustrated by Windows 7.

right click the .gif file and click 'open with' then browse for either internet explorer or firefox, whatever browser you use, click always use this option and click OK...there should be no prob after that...i use W7 with .gif's with no problems...hope this helps...

 

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Yea, I have no problems with animated gifs either (Win7 64 bit).

Laurie

I don't have Win7 so I can't test or vouch for this but it's mentioned on some Win7 forums. Try at your own discretion :-)

http://www.goofwear.com/windows/ 

Hi

I'm not sure about the Goofwear program, it comes up as Malware in both my AV and Malwarebytes.

I'm using IrfanView and it work fine, no virus.

I'm using it in Windows 8 but it's designed for Windows 7, I haven't installed it there yet.

Just install the small program that can view a zillion types of files and set it as default for Gif files.  When you click on one it will open and animate.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Mike

 

If you want to view animated gif's in browser or program that use browser call to display, you have to make sure such is enabled. I have mine disabled because they are annoying for the most part.  I find it hard to read in a forum when 20 or so images are making odd movements.

Thank you all for your help!

I scanned the Windows 7 Gif Viewer.exe with Avast & it came up clean. According to virustotal, only Symantec reports a problem with it out of 43 AV products so YMMV. I'd install it myself but it won't install on XP :-)

 

https://www.virustotal.com/file/3575e6814037e90c38c41dc7b9470bd901a5aa6aa436a1c4c502a0659b03b1fa/analysis/ 

UPDATE: I unpacked the gif viewer file. It has a copy of the Windows XP Picture and Fax Viewer dll and instructions to view .gif files using it. The dll is the same as the one on my XP SP2 system. So basically, it's just using the XP viewer for .gifs. I also ran a MalwareBytes scan with the latest definitions and it came up clean - of course that's just scanning the uninstalled file. In summary, I'm pretty sure this is safe - that is, I'd use it but again, use your own judgement.

Hi

My virus scanner popped as soon as I installed it, I then ran Malwarebytes and it flagged and removed it.  

All this could be because they just see it as something that they don't see as belonging, and this is in Windows 8 as I said.

I haven't tried it in Windows 7 yet, I'll see what happens the next time I log into 7.

Mike

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My virus scanner popped as soon as I installed it, I then ran Malwarebytes and it flagged and removed it.  

All this could be because they just see it as something that they don't see as belonging, and this is in Windows 8 as I said.

I haven't tried it in Windows 7 yet, I'll see what happens the next time I log into 7.

Mike

 

that was nothing to do with windows 8. that was purely Malwarebytes on it's own.