Automatic Resize Problem on an Xp Operating System

[dara_ter]

Recently, while making my way through some old image files I discovered that they had been resized to approximately 50% of there original size. Needless to say that I was rather concerned so I raced to my Video files and saw that my entire anime movie collection, which I had been neglecting for some time had undergone the same downsizing. The movie quality suffered and thus, after breaking down into a quivering mass of tears and angry curses, I attempted a fruitless effort to hunt down the cause of the problem over the countless internet forums.

This occurred on a machine installed with Windows XP Home Edition and has been occurring over time, including before my installation of Service Pack 2. I have maintained a Firewall at all times on my computer and have Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition installed and update it as if it were a religious ritual. I also frequently run Spybot S&D and defrag my hard drive every month. Thus I am very confident that this cannot be blamed on any malevolent external forces.

If anyone has a reason as to why this has happened to my machine, a way to prevent this from happening again, or a way to restore my anime to its former glory, Please feel free to post it here. If you do not feel I did not state the problem in a concise enough manner or require additional information then please state that as well.

[Force Flow]

Welcome to PCMech, dara_ter

I can't say I've every heard of media files doing that on their own. Do you have HDD disk compression enabled?

What software are you using to play the videos and view the pictures?

[dara_ter]

Thank you for your gracious greeting.

I am looking at these pictures in a program called 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer'. I ran my precious anime files through 'Windows Media Player' and 'Realplayer' and both of them appeared in the same resized form.

I also do not have HDD Disk Compression enabled.

For now it seems my only solice is that I did make disk backups of most of the Rare AMV's and Fanmade episodes. It seems that it is not a complete disater, though I am sure you can see why I am upset.

[Statica]

Out of curiosity, did you check the properties of the files in question? go to Windows Explorer and right click on any image file in question then go to Properties > go to the SUMMARY tab > and click Advanced. It should tell you the actual width and height of the file. Does it look copesatic? YOu can do the same for the video files (if they are in AVI). I don't know of any virus that reduces image and video sizes, in all probability it is some software that you use that seems to have done it in batches. However, as a second opinion on antivirus I suggest you run: http://housecall.antivirus.com/