My Internet explorere is J@cked

[808smokey]

Hi,

My IE is messed up.

Whenever I right click an image and select "save as" it will only let me save it as a .bmp when it's a .jpg or .gif It used to default to the last folder I saved in and show the filename of the image. Now it shows like the Picture below. In the "Type" pull down box it only has .BMP extention. Any idea how to fix this? I have to use mozilla to save the pics now, which is fine but I'd like to figure this out. I've ran all the norton programs to find errors and that didn't do anything. Other than restoring to a few days I can't figure it out.

Thanks

[tekkieman]

I've seen this several times in the microsoft newsgroups. Here's a copy of a recent discussion:

>> > I have tried clearing out IE's temporary files, but even on the rare
>> > occasions when that works, the problem returns within a day or two. I
>> > have the cache set to 8GB, so that ought to be more than plenty.
>> 
>> This issue is outlined in KB article 260650: Internet Explorer Does Not 
>> Save Graphics Files in the Proper Format 
> 
> Well, as he said above, he's already tried clearing out IE's temporary
> files, and that's not helping. The only other cause (according to the
> KB article) is the "do not save encrypted files to disk" option.
> 
> As for me, I'm having the exact same problem, and it's *not* a TIF or
> encrypted file problem. I've cleaned up absolutely everything,
> restarted several times ... but nothing. It just flat out doesn't
> work. I've noticed this also seems to go hand in hand with "View
> Source" not working as well (which is particularly frustrating, as a
> web developer).
> 
> --cd

I was being plagued with the same problem in the last week or two. And 
checking properties of the image to be saved would stutter a JPeg type then 
go to "Not available". Checking the KB doc mentioned didn't seem to fix it 
but another associated one did concerning the "Downladed Program Files" 
directory (or maybe that was vica versa or something). Anyway raising the 
cache, deleting the temp files, and right-click removing of the "unknown" 
files in the Downloaded Prog Files dir seems to have cured it for now. 
Checking after each action showed negative response until the last action 
was taken.

Hopefully it will keep.

[tekkieman]

Also found a couple of direct links to the KB articles

Right-Clicking, Selecting 'Save Picture As' Does Not Save
Image with Correct Extension
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=250747

Internet Explorer Saves Images As Bitmaps (.bmp Files)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810978

[ofbarea]

Time to try Mozilla

[miksu]

Usually it happens, because your "Downloaded Program Files"-directory contains garbage-file(s), usually name is something like {JDFHGSJFJ..., beginning with { and then misc. characters.

Delete those files and everything should work. But notice, depending on your windows version, it may require admin-rights.