# Saving pictures in Windows XP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 25, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013 "2003-04-25T02:06:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013/1 "2003-04-25T02:06:39Z")

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I recently upgraded to windows XP from ME, and am having a problem with saving pictures off the internet. In ME, I’d right click on a picture, choose save as, and it would automatically give the picture the proper name and extension. But when I right click save as on a picture in XP, it says the picture is “untitled.bmp” ( instead of .jpg or .gif like it’s supposed to be). I then have to go in and manually name it and give it the proper extension, which is rather anoying.

So I ask the collective genious of the SDMB, is there a way to fix this so that save as works properly? Or am I stuck with this, since it’s " working as intented" ?

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**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013/2 "2003-04-25T02:11:57Z")

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Try clearing your IE cache: Right click on IE shortcut on desktop and select “Properties”. Then click “delete files” and make sure to check the “Delete all offline content” box in the next screen.

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013/3 "2003-04-25T02:18:52Z")

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[This](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810978) KB article also recommends removing damaged items from the **Downloaded Program Files** folder.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013/4 "2003-04-25T02:19:06Z")

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Thaumaturge. Sometimes that happens regardless of the OS you are using.

Just a guess - it could be that the pictures are not making it to the internet explorer history, so windows doesn’t have a file from which to get the name (but it does have the picture in RAM or the swap file). Try fiddling with the settings for internet explorer history.

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**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-pictures-in-windows-xp/171013/5 "2003-04-25T03:37:05Z")

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Thanks guys, deleting the files worked.