Comments on: IE6: Images Will Save Only as a Bitmap (*.bmp)

By: JayDee

JayDee — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:23:09 +0000

Hi,

From the official Microsoft Page:

Method 1
Delete the temporary Internet files. To do so, click Tools, click Internet Options, click the General tab, and then click the Delete Files button.

Note To locate the Temporary Internet Files folder, click Options on the Tools menu, click the General tab, and then click Settings. The current location appears in the Settings dialog box.
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Method 2
To work around the problem, click Tools, click Internet Options, click the Advanced tab, click to clear the Do not save encrypted pages to disk check box, click View, and then click Refresh. The Do not save encrypted pages to disk check box is under the Security section.
Note: so as Guest/Anonymous suggested four years ago but after the unchecking you need to refresh (View... Refresh or F5)

This worked for me! Good luck!

By: JusJane

JusJane — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:14:37 +0000

I am on Windows 7 and I also still hav the problem

By: Cassoe

Cassoe — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:15:50 +0000

Here it is 2009 and still this problem has not been solved. I have done everything that has been suggested here and on Microsoft Help & Support as well as some suggestions from individuals and nothing has solved this problem . This was not happening when I first started using IE6 Windows XPSP2. Could it be that a MS update caused the problem? I have always installed them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2005 11:57:14 +0000

Guest wrote:

nope. doesnt work. im the one who posted before you, and i did what you said. and nope. they still save in .bmp i also found something weird, when i right-click and image and goto properties, the size, and type of the image says "Not Available" so something is definetly wrong some where.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 May 2005 18:48:49 +0000

Sorry, forgot to say you might need to reboot for it to take effect.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 14 May 2005 18:47:31 +0000

In I.E. go to tools and select Internet Options. Click on the Advanced tab and under the Security heading, close to the bottom, uncheck the box next to “Do not save encrypted pages to disk”, click ok and the problem is solved. :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 May 2005 13:38:43 +0000

ive tried many times, to clean my temporary internet files, ive uninstalled all the downloaded program files, even if they didnt say “unknown” this still did not help, but if i goto save an image and save the title as “untitled.jpg” it saves as .jpg which is odd, ’cause i can only save in .bmp, or so the selection box says, but needless to say, this problem is very aggrevating and the only way can see to fix it, is result of moving to another browser such as opera.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2005 16:01:19 +0000

arrrrgh it works.. which is good

until i have to do this every day… Microsoft need to fix this its annoying as hell

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:39:20 +0000

If all else fails move the temp folder in internet options to C:Temp

By: Guest 2

Guest 2 — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:11:23 +0000

I’ve done everything suggestd and have even went as far as running system restore. I still get the same problem. The only thing new that I’ve added to my computer is the XP service package 2. Would this have anything to do with pictures only being forced to save as bitmaps? I need help please. Thanks.

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