Help in fixing Paint

[TheANZAC]

Hey all, I had to reformat my harddrive a couple of days ago and when I opened up paint afterwards, it wouldn't let me open gif's anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Case]

I guess that when you reinstalled Windows, you lost all of your default settings.
To open a .gif with paint, right click on the files icon, select 'open with' from the menu, and choose paint. From memory, there's a box at the bottom of the open with menu that lets you set a particular program as the default for opening that type of file.

Hope that helps

 

[TheANZAC]

Case: for what I asked you answered correctly, but I asked the wrong question. I meant I can't save a file as a gif in paint and I would like to fix that.

 

[Case]

I didn't think that paint allowed for the creation of new gifs

I save things as gifs by copying and pasting the bitmap version onto an exhisting .gif, and then saving it as a new .gif file (it's cumbersome, but it works...)

 

[oryx]

Originally posted by Case
I didn't think that paint allowed for the creation of new gifs

That's what I thought too! Unless Microsoft issued an upgraded version of Paint that could handle GIF's that you (ANZAC) installed as an update. Or maybe we're not talking about MS Paint?

 

[TheANZAC]

No, we're talking about MS Paint. And Case even if I import gif's it still won't save them as gifs if I make changes to it.

 

[Jimmywax]

The version of paint that I have will not let me save as a Gif either. It will however let me save as a BMP.

 

[TheANZAC]

On Apolyton Techumseh gave an explanation on how to fix it, but Apolyton is down so I can't check it.