Picture It! 2000 won't save .jpg on Vista?

[markaaro]

so I've been using Microsoft Picture It! 2000 on my Vista machine since last May, then suddenly about a month ago it would no longer show the option for saving my created files in .jpg. There was a new file called JPG Filter, but when saving files that way, they never show up. There are others (GIF and BMP) on the program that I can use, but I'd really like to keep all my files the same. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!

markaaro
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[Stang02GT]

so I've been using Microsoft Picture It! 2000 on my Vista machine since last May, then suddenly about a month ago it would no longer show the option for saving my created files in .jpg. There was a new file called JPG Filter, but when saving files that way, they never show up. There are others (GIF and BMP) on the program that I can use, but I'd really like to keep all my files the same. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!

markaaro
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so the new file is .jpgfilter ?


it sounds like you changed a setting or preference or something.

[markaaro]

well in the drop down list of what to save it as it lists all of the different files names "JPEG Filter" "Picture It! Format" "Windows Bitmap" etc.... It never actually shows you the exact files extension like ".jpg" ".pif" or ".bmp"

When I try to save anything with the "JPEG Filter" it never actually saves it - I'll try to save a picture to my desktop using it, and when I go to the desktop the picture is not there.

If a file or setting did get changed, I have no idea, but would love to figure it out. I've been sloppily trying to get used to the GIMP program this past month or so and I absolutely hate it. After using Picture It 2000 for 8 years I know exactly how to do everything on it and what works best for me. I hate to sound like a wuss and not want to learn something new, it's just the old program was exactly what I needed, so if anyone has anymore help for me it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again

[jjensen]

I guess it tells us that JPG cannot work with Vista? Mine changed last month also and I cannot save a jpg to my picture anymore.
It is not a setting that we have changed, it is something in the vista according to my research, not sure how to fix that?

[caryc]

I had the exact same problem in Windows XP. I had changed nothing and this JPEG Filter suddenly appeared and would not let me save in a .jpg format. This is how I fixed it.

Remove Picture it 1.0. Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders. In a Named box, type "jpegim32.flt" without quotation marks, and then click Find Now. Rename all of Jpegim32.flt files to Jpegim32.old. Use Registry Editor to remove JPEG value from following registry keys:

After renaming the above mentioned file I just went into the registry and drilled down to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Shared Tools/Graphic Filters/ Export

There was a value there "JPEG Filter". I just deleted that one value and everything worked like it should again.

This actually worked for me. You'll notice that I am using Picture It 1.0. Yeah, I know it's very old but it does what I want quickly and easily. Since the problem is exactly the same as mentioned on later versions of Picture It, I don't see why the fix would be any different. The offending culprit is that "JPEG Filter" registry value. Once that is gone and Picture It no longer sees it, so is the problem.