Windows 7 gifs not animated

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This is not an answer to the OP's question. Shall we save all the GIFs now from web pages and open Irfan to look at them? The GIF animation is not supported in Windows 7. I can hardly understand why. Anyone with a proper answer? Thank you.

Dave you are right. I used a new installation of Opera that defaulted to not show animated images in web pages. I ticked the option from Quick Preferences on Opera and all went flashing again.

For this file format, you can view the still image but not the animation. You can always open animated. It's going to show animation without any problem. Then click on apply and again ok Lee If you want to view the animated GIF, you can either open it in a browser or install an image viewer that can display them.

If you don't want to download anything, opening in a browser is a good way to go in fact, the default on my system is to open. Hopefully in future versions of Windows, there will be support for animated gifs.

Vipul Jain you need to open them in any browser you have installed. In the default image viewer they do not animate. What are virtual machines used for? Here are some practical benefits and uses for virtual machines that you can try right now. Windows 7 does not support animated desktop background. Considering the high system resource usage of animated desktop, Windows 7 has removed this feature to meet the most computer hardware configurations.

However, I will still send your feedback to Microsoft to check if this feature can be added again. I think most of the new computers can support animated desktop properly.

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This is exactly why feedback such as yours is always valued. And I hope your concern can be addressed with a new service pack or a new Windows version in the near feature. Blair Deng. TechNet Community Support. So in previous versions of Windows when computer technology was primitive compared to today Microsoft thought animated wallpapers weren't too taxing on the system, but when the advent of higher processor speeds and graphics chips started making their way into more PCs that's when Microsoft decided "oh no, we can't have them supporting animated GIFS as wallpapers, it might crash everything!

It's contradictory in more ways than one for the fact that the wallpaper themes bundled with Windows in Vista and 7 include animated pictures. MS never ceases to amaze me with their inconsistency. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?