Internet Explorer: JPG will only save as BMP

The classic solution for this problem (which invariably works) has always been to empty your Internet Explorer cache, but of course this is a workaround, not a fix. 

Well, it seems that the August Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer fixes this problem!  So go get it guys 'n' gals.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896727

Be warned, this is not an 'all circumstances' fix. There are rare instances when the cumulative update, and clearing the cache, and other fixes on my site, will not work - rare instances the circumstances of which I suspect are not public so I cannot not discuss them here.

Published Sun, Aug 21 2005 18:38 by sandi

Comments

# re: Internet Explorer: JPG will only save as BMP

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:10 PM by Ritual
Since I installed XP a few weeks ago, I´ve been suffering from the "unable to save jpg" problem. Cleaning the cache would solve the problems in Win98SE, and it also works for friends of mine but I can´t make it work. I just installed IE7 and I still have this damn problem. This is really frustrating

# re: Internet Explorer: JPG will only save as BMP

Friday, August 29, 2008 2:38 PM by mike

nothing works... I need to save photos as jpegs. i have tried everything emptying my cache and tempory internet files...i sthere a patch out there that will fix this?????

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