downloading a gif?

I want to safe a gif from a free gif site to my hard drive -- when I right
click and choose "save picture" I get a static image saved, not the
animation. What do I need to do instead?

Or an I opening the saved file wrong? I am using the automatic open picture
file that Vista brings up.

Am I missing something obvious here?

--Barb

In Vista, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Explorer will not show animated
gifs .
You can view the animation in Internet Explorer, or in a viewer like
Irfanview.



"Barb McC-D" <BarbMcCD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2BCF3142-91EB-45B7-A665-B67D5F5176B4@microsoft.com...
>I want to safe a gif from a free gif site to my hard drive -- when I right
> click and choose "save picture" I get a static image saved, not the
> animation. What do I need to do instead?
>
> Or an I opening the saved file wrong? I am using the automatic open
> picture
> file that Vista brings up.
>
> Am I missing something obvious here?
>
> --Barb