Okay, this is pissing me off.

[athelind]

A few years ago, I had a problem with Internet Explorer -- every so often, when I tried to right-click on an image, instead of popping up with the appropriate filename and image extension, it would try to save it as "UNTITLED.BMP". I don't remember if I actually did anything to fix it, like upgrade the software. I'm not even sure which computer this was on -- but eventually, the problem Just Went Away.

Until yesterday.

Now, bear in mind that since June, I've replaced the motherboard, the RAM, the secondary hard drive, and, most recently, the operating system. The only parts of this system that are still original equipment are the case and the main hard drive (which has been wiped and reformatted within the last few weeks). IE has been through a couple of jillion new versions since the problem last cropped up -- and I'm not even sure it cropped up on "this" system or the one before it. Or even the one before that.

But in any event, it's Doing It Again. At first, if I was just looking at a pic on the web without any HTML wrapped around it, I could hit "Refresh" and it would save properly, but now it's resisting even that. And again -- it's not every pic. If there's a pattern at all, it seems to be size -- it's willing to save little decorative icon-graphic things properly, but not the big image that I want.

Reboots have done nothing.

Anyone familiar with this particular pain in the ass?

And don't tell me to use a different broswer, dammit.

Comments

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

This exact same thing happens to me a lot, too. And unfortunately, like you've said, it comes and goes as it pleases.

Luckily, I've noticed that the problem only seems to happen for a few days at a time, and then it can disappear for months or more.

[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

Click on tools -> internet options and then delete your temporary files. Some file cache or something fills up and causes this error. After you do that, restart IE, and you should be able to save pictures again. I run into this problem religiously every couple of months.

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Wow. That explains a lot.

Thanks!

You asked for it... ^_^

[andreal.livejournal.com]

A quick google search on "'Internet explorer' 'untitled.bmp'" revealed that LOTS of people have this problem. One solution direct from MS's knowledgebase (which some people say hasn't worked) can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810978 . Other solutions seem to be based around problems with older verzions of Zone Alarm, or even more out there things. Still, googling through this might offer more insight.

There was a much less complex response at http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=5584 , but hey, it might work.

Re: You asked for it... ^_^

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

You're such a clever little spotty! *headruffle*

Remind me to give you a raise.

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

I've experienced the 'save as untitled.bmp' experience many times in the past, which is why I have so many untitled.bmps. However, like yours did, my problem went away, and I haven't noticed it coming back yet. Who knows, though. Netscaped doesn't do it, at least, only IE.

[aneirin.livejournal.com]

yeah I get this too deleteing your internet temp stored files fixes it for me too

[athelind.livejournal.com]

So it seems that the mystery is not that I'm running into the UNTITLED.BMP problem, but rather, that for so many years, I didn't.

As a point of obnoxious irony, I think I've stumbled on the reason why.

Those were the years I was running Windows ME as my OS.

Win 98? Yep. Win XP? Yep. Win ME, rightfully regarded as the worst operating system ever to plague a CPU? Lo and behold, no.

Of course, this was WinME on the Magic Computer that never evidenced any of ME's usual memory leaks until its motherboard was replaced.

Seems that wasn't its only magic...