Greetings all

Lately when I save images to the hardrive it comes up with a different icon.  Normally it is a small thumbnail of the picture SAVED but it SOMETIMES saves it as one I haven't seen before(see attached image).  

When it saves as this icon the only way to open them seems to be 1) click on open 2)select the option "select the program from a list" 3) then open it in paintbrush.  When it saves as a thumbnail all I have to do is click PREVIEW to view the image.  When scrolling through the images any with the new icon will not show up.

When I click on PROPERTIES to see what sort of file it is it just says "file".

Any idea on what is causing this as it is becoming quite frustrating.  At the moment nearly 50% of images saved turn into this icon.

I'm currently using windows xp.  That's about all I can tell you as I'm very green when it comes to computers.

Many thanks for any assistance. It would help to switch on the viewing of file extensions - that's the bit like ".jpg" or ".bmp" that TELLS Windows what kind of file it is.  In Windows explorer, go to Tools-->Folder Options-->View.  Uncheck "Hide extensions for knwon file types."

If you're seeing a file with no thumbnail, that also has no extension, but which opens in MS Paint, then it is probably a ".bmp" file.  Rename (e.g.) "train_srath_33" to "train_srath_33.bmp" and you might find this fixes the problem.You must be doing something while saving the images.

I think Rob's approach will solve your cause.It worked perfectly!  Thankyou so much for the assistance! Pleasure.