Hello How to view animated gifs in windows 7 ? I tried irfanview but I think it does not integrate well enough with windows explorer. I want to use windows photo viewer. One of my friends told me that his windows 7 can do this. ( I think he hasn't noticed he still has windows xp ) Do I need some kind of codec ? ps: I WILL NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO VIEW GIFS lol Thank you in advance for your help.
The integration to windows explorer is even worse than irfanview... Isn't there a way to make windows photo viewer work ? ps: It seems Gif Viewer 3.3 is out so if you use it you should download the latest version.
Woah! It made it all the way out here? Sorry for necroing this thread, but i did it for good reason: I recently was using goofs win7 Gif viewer, however it did not work when I had windows installed on my D drive (longer story there). After examining it more closely, I noticed a lot of the registry references were really sloppy. I decided there was only one thing to do: Rewrite it form scratch at 2AM! Here is the resulting source and a compiled, bulls**t-free installer! http ://goo gl/cEyzo and always up-to-date source here: http ://goo gl/6FBZl Sorry for the spaces, it won't let me post links yet Edit: updated code, now with uninstaller! Note, to run the source you will need autoit, and "shimgvw.dll" and "rundll32.exe" from windows xp
@jayblok Its more or less same as the above; see the source. @Corgano Under Windows 8 x64, rundll32 must be run under compatibility mode. I know it can be removed manually, but can you also write an uninstaller??
the last line of code makes a key at [FONT=verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]HKEY_LOCAL_MECHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers that sets the compatibility for you. I havn't had a chance to try this on windows 8 yet, although it should work, does it? An uninstaller you say... Give me a min [/FONT]
Not sure what you were trying to say? This is literally the image viewer from xp, the experience will be identical. UPDATE! Now has an uninstaller, and a little popup when it is done installing. Also fixed a spelling mistake that may have kept it from setting comparability properly. Checked it all over and works flawlessly http ://goo gl/cEyzo Anything else anyone wants me to add?
Herp Derp, done The google docs upload is public http ://goo gl/cEyzo That version does not have the uninstaller in it yet, and you may have to set the compatibility.
Corgano,i hope you are not upset if i posted that link without your permission. Is it supposed to work in windows 8?
As the script runs as admin, it will prompt for UAC when installing / uninstalling it. However, there's no reason it should ask for UAC if you're opening gif files. Do you mean it asks for UAC to install, or when you open gifs? I don't have UAC enabled and will check this. As for windows 8, it SHOULD work, but I don't have a windows 8 computer handy. If you have access to one feel free to test it for me. Also, feel free to share this! I'll keep updating a few of these animated gif threads in case anyone wants more features or has issues with Goofs version
I'll fix it in the next version Lol. i tried turning on UAC and installing / uninstalling it, but I couldn't get UAC to turn on Good thing I don't use it
I'm currently testing it on a Windows 8 x64 PC. It asks for UAC while opening gifs. Btw, why don't you compress it using UPX? Almost 60% can be compressed.