Kevin,

I'm at a loss to understand your problem completely. Are you in Internet
Explorer when it saves as an art file?  If so try right clicking on the
image and select "save picture as" and choose from available file types.  I
think the ".art" format is by AOL so AOL is probably the culpret! My
suggestion: Get rid of the AOL setting that is making .art the default or
contact AOL for help.

I use ACDSee  (by ACD Systems) which has the ability to view & use .art
format files. This program costs $$$ but is the best. IrfranView (that you
have) should work too and it's free.

John D.

At 07:55 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All.....  I've got a question for anyone out there who may be able to
>help me. When I download an image or web page from the internet and save
>it to my computer, it always saves as an .ART file. I'll double click on
>the saved image and windows says that it can't read it, and suggests that
>I open it in explorer. Explorer can't seem to open them either, so I
>downloaded "Irfanview" which claims to open darned near any type of file.
>It'll open these image (jpeg) files, but in an .ART format. Is there any
>way to change the way these files open, and open them to their original
>.jpeg format? Any information will be greatly appreciated! Thanks
>loads!    Kevin Hitsman
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