IE 5.5 and 6.0 - Saving Images - BMP only

[Mike Curwen]

I've googled and been to annoyances.org. I've seen (surprisingly?) very few references to this problem.

If I right click and image and 'save as...' I only get the option to save as BMP, no matter what format the picture actually is.

Some places describe a -1byte file size problem. Indeed when I right click our friend the moose, I see that the file size is 18817 bytes, and I can save it as a gif. But anything with "File Size Not Available" gets only the BMP option.

This turns out to be lots of images, included any Hotmail attachments!

Anyone else experience this and know the solution?

And yes... there ARE other browsers.

[Eric Pascarello]

I never heard of it, could it be a setting? not sure...

[Manish Hatwalne]

Looks like lot of ppl are facing this problem recently...
Have a look at these articles and see if they are of any help -
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q260650
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;250747
HTH,
- Manish

[Randall Twede]

if you go ahead and save the file as .bmp can you look at it? is it a "good" file? if so 9its an annoyance is all. what do you expect from MS? :roll:

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

You could save it as a bmp, open it in Paint or another image app and save it as a different file format (jpg for example).