IE 6.0 SP1 on Win XP

[aznaphrodite]

I'm having some problems with IE 6.0 SP1 on Windows XP Home:

- When I try to "View Source", nothing happens.
- When I save images, it will only let me save in the Bitmap file type, even though the original image is a JPG or GIF.

Any ideas? I tried looking to see if there was a newer version of IE but I seem to have the newest one.

Would installing IE 5.5 resolve this problem? I used to use IE 5.5 on my old computer, which was running Win98, and I never had this problem. Does IE 5.5 support XP?

[coleslaw]

Do these problems only happen with certain sites? Many times, these problems arise because someone has taken the liberty of disabling source-code viewing or image saving.

Other times, your temporary internet files need to be cleared for this to work.

One tip, though: if the file is trying to be saved as "untitled.bmp", you can actually give it your own name and add the .jpg extension and it will save as a jpeg even though the drop-down box says bmp. ;)

[seqiro]

Happens to me all the time, here's the fix:

Tools -> Internet Options... -> General Tab -> Delete Files... -> OK

[aznaphrodite]

Thanks for your help, everyone! Both problems are fixed now.

Here's what I did:

- Changed the size of my temp Internet files folder to 5 MB. It was originally 3245 MB!
- Deleted all my temporary files.

Voila! Both problems were fixed after that!

Thanks for your help!