by drsurf » Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:26 pm
I found some answers to the questions about viewing animated GIFs on Win7.
Win7 does not support animated GIF. Some genius at Microsoft decided that Win7 users shouldn't be given that option. Another brilliant decision by Microsoft, making life more difficult for the rest of us.
Luckily, there are intelligent and generous individuals out there who have come up with solutions. Here is a freeware download that works wonderfully with animated gif creator.
I regret that I neglected to save the name of the person who shared the following online:
gifview.exe
"Set this as the default program to view gif images. It is written in GDI+, so you can expect the same level of functionality as the one in win XP. gifview wonā€™t run directly. Just keep it sumwhere in ur PC, Right Click on any .gif file, click Properties> Change...(towards right side of Open With), click on Browse...,now browse for gifview.exe that u have saved previously, click on OPEN and then OK. Now onwards, all ur .gif files wil open with gifview directly."
I just downloaded and tried this, and it works great. You can create a folder of animated gifs and gifview.exe will act like a media player, with Play, Pause, Next, and Previous options.