MS has decided that animated GIFs are antiquated.

Download IrfanView and use it to display your GIFs.
http://www.irfanview.com/


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"Paddy" <paddy@myisp.com> wrote in message
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> In XP, with an animated gif, one can right-click | Preview and the gif
> displays and animates.
>
> In Vista, the "new" Windows Photo Gallery just shows the static gif
> non-animating (and also demonstrates other head-shakingly idiotic
> nonsense).
>
> How does one get rid of that Windows Photo Gallery crap and put Picture &
> Fax viewer on Vista?????
>
> Thanks
>
> Paddy
>