kryogenik

Just as an update - I have just noticed if you have a folder full of gifs and jpegs and scroll through them IN Windows Photo Gallery, it will happily display the gifs no problem as it used to do.
Assign the .gif extension to WPG and no go.
Try and open a .gif in WPG still no go.
So WPG does still have the capability to open gif's, just seems to have had the extension association bypassed somewhere.