Saving Pictures in XP
 

This has always been sore point with me about XP. When I right click on a picture I want to save ("Save Picture As......") and if I alter the highlighted (in gray) File Name: 03-Irg, for example, and change it to 103 my computer saves it as some kind of .dat file. Is there any way to change or fix this? Any help in this matter would greatly appreciated. Thanks and cheers.

that's odd. if you're right clicking on a jpg file, and only change the filename field, it shouldn't change the file <i>type</i>

i've never encountered this problem in xp

instead of just renaming the file, try renaming it w/ the file type as an extension (instead of "103", try "103.jpg") That should help.

Yeah, if i leave the assigned title/picture tag alone it saves the picture just fine but if I change the file name in any way (if I add a - 1 or change the entire tag) it saves as a .dat file (I wish I could post an example but I don't know how to post a pic). I can change it after the fact but not during. Does anyone have any suggestions? Much appreciated.

Try clearing your cache and temp inet files.....restart IE then try saving again.

Unfortunately, clearing the temp. files/caches didn't do anything. It is still saving pictures that I change into .dat files. Thanks, though, for the suggestion.

p.s. how big should my temp. file be? the slider is set to 1192MB right now. is there an optimal setting that I should know about? thanks again