Animated gifs only play through one cycle then they 'freeze'

Im going nuts here.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Animated gifs only play through one cycle for me then they freeze.. IE dosent freeze, the animations just stops after the cycle. Its realy annoying.. Please any suggestions???


Chad

 

Perhaps something in this old reference.txt will offer a springboard for some idea that can help pinpoint this:

Why don't my animated gifs animate?
Do you have ZoneAlarm Pro installed? If so, open the programme, go to the Privacy Tab and click on the custom button. Make sure that the option to block animation is turned OFF.

Other programmes such as @Guard can disable animated .gifs. Ensure there are no programmes set to disable gifs..

Go to IE tools/internet options/advanced/multimedia. Ensure the option to show animations is turned on. If no joy, make sure your .gifs are associated to Internet Explorer - if you click on a .gif in windows explorer, IE should open to display it. :

Easy way (Doug Knox's script utility):

http://www.dougknox.com/utility/scripts_desc/fixpix.htm



Harder way:



Go to start/run and type:

regsvr32.exe /i shdocvw.dll (all versions of IE) ... and then

regsvr32.exe /i shdoc401.dll (IE5 upwards)

If using WindowsME the command is:

regsvr32.exe /i thumbvw.dll

After a wait you will get a *succeeded* dialogue box after each command. Click ok, reboot and see if things are fixed.

But be warned, this resets a lot of file associations back to the standard defaults, so some image viewer programmes may complain - but that's an easy fix - you can pick and choose your file associations later.

Go to windows/downloaded programme files and check for damaged java classes. Update to the latest java vm and scripting engines - information about repairing/updating java is HERE. The latest scripting engine can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp

If it still isn't fixed (make sure you reboot your system before checking) go to start/run and type the following:

regsvr32 /i occache.dll

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Ad banners are popup animated gifs. Is it possible you are using some sort of popup stopper that is messing with this function?

Shutdown any background running app that may be suspected of interfering with the gifs.

Use IE's Repair function??????