IE under XP question: BMP's

Factual Questions
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I don’t know why, but recently Internet Explorer on my PC has been acting really weird. Specifically, whenever I right-click on a picture to save it, it wants to save it as a .BMP with the name “untitled” rather than as the .JPG that it actually is, with the name that whoever put it there gave to the pic.

It used to work just fine, i.e. it saved pics as what they were. I’ve searched the IE settings over and over, and I can’t find anything to control this. I didn’t consciously change anything.

Any ideas?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Clear out your IE cache. If you click on Tools->Internet Options, then click on the “Delete Files” button under “Temporary Internet Files”, it should clear out the corrupted file.

I havn’t figured out what exactly is causing this yet, but it’s only happened on my XP machine, and more than once.

HTH.

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Dude! You rock!

Thanks for clearing me up on this, really f**cking annoying problem.

Anybody have any idea what causes this?

Oh, and in case someone hasn’t done it already,** Welcome to the SDMB, Sweepkick!** You’re gonna do just fine here.

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It’s a Microsoft product?

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What caused it was one of the following:
[ul]
[li]Either your Temporary Internet Cache was full[/li][li]You have “Do not save encrypted pages to disk” selected in Tools | Options | Advanced Tab and are loading the page over a secure connection like https[/li][li]You were on a Website whose address contained <username:password> at the beginning, ex: http://<username: password>/default.html.[/li][/ul]
Cite.

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Yes, it is a Microsoft product. With this information at your disposal, do you have anything substantive to add to the discussion?

We don’t like drive-by pot-shots and we are not going to have a platform war in this forum.

DrMatrix - General Questions Moderator

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I’m 99% positive it was the cache being full. I did not have the box you mentioned checked, and it happened on several sites, and the probability of all of them having that in the addy is unlikely. Plus, when I deleted the temp files, it took a long time. Also, this problem appeared to randomly creep up, not in response to any discernable change. My money’s on the cache.

Thanks for the help and the clarification folks. I love this board, accurate info in a timely fashion.

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I have come accross this myself when trying to save a porn… i mean educational image.

As na intrnet etch the first thing i did was clear cache/cookies n stuff.

However i can not figure out a theory why this should have fixed it unless it was a “save images as type” option that was saved in my cache.

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here
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i havent used these but i am planning to sus out the info later to help me on the xp saga:)

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I’ve seen this happen on win98 and win2k as well, fyi.