Pdf Attachments, Move Or Delete The Mail Windows Mail Hangs
May 14, 2010
For the last couple of weeks when I receive mail with attached pdf files, if I try to move or delete the mail Windows Mail hangs. Sometime it recovers but otherwise I need to kill it. I can open the attachment by clicking on the paper clip etc and everything seems fine so I don't think it's a security thing.
Starting about 2 weeks ago, I can't open attachments in Windows Mail. Message says "command failed to execute" I have been reading the posts and still don't know what to do. How do I know if IE8 has been installed as an update? I'm inexperienced with technical stuff. I don't think I installed it, could it have installed on it's own as an update? Tried saving them to desktop but don't know how to separate them from the e-mail, so they still don't open.
How stable is Windows Live Mail? Does it convert your old Windows Mail messages and keep storing messages on your computer, or only online? And what about Contacts? Is there something good to read to read about moving from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mail? The material at is pretty superficial.
When I start Windows Mail, it often hangs the whole system for a minute or so. Even Ctrl-Shft-Esc won't work to help me see what's going on. Finally, everything jumps back into action! I tracked down a log entry that says "A request to write to the file "C:Users...AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindows MailBackup empWindowsMail.MSMessageStore" at offset 0 (0x0000000000000000) for 2097152 (0x00200000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (61 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem." A hardware problem seems unlikely, as everything else works fine....and I'd need a bit more information to go back to my 'hardware vendor' anyway!
After you delete mail from windows mail and then you delete the deleted mail. where does it go? In outlook express we had to do a "search" for *DBX to find those files and finally delete them from the harddrive...what do I look for now to delete all the deleted files?
Recently I was unable to open attachments at all, after uninstalling IE8 I can now open PPS files but when I try to open a PDF attachment it opens up Microsoft Office Picture Manager. The only way I can view the attachment is to save it to another folder and then open it with Adobe 9.1.
I use a Vista and my Windows mail does not send any email with attachments like pictures or short movies, pps and others. Small attchments and normal outgoing emails work fine. I use ZoneAlarm and already disabled the email function, and dont know what else to do.
Most of the time when I attempt to open attachments (Media files such as jpg, mpg, wmv, etc.) the file does not open but I receive a message that OE cannot fnd the file. Usually, if I close OE and reopen, it will operate properly. Sometimes it is necessary to close and reopen more than one time. This never occurred prior to installing IE8. I am using Vista (64) home premium.
Recently bought a Dell Inspiron laptop from Future Shop and having a couple of challenges:
1. Regarding standard text signature at the end of an e-mail: I set up going through tools, options, signature and want it to appear at the end of each originally created e-mail and the end of each reply or forward...in Arial and font size of 10. Works fine when I create an e-mail, but for a reply or a forward appears as Times New Roman. Anything I can do to ensure always shows as Arial?
2. Regarding attachments received with an e-mail: often unable to open when I click on. Someone suggested saving the attachment to the desk top and then opening...generally works but a pain to save. Someone suggested the problem is that I don't have full Microsoft Office suite on the laptop just what came with it-Microsoft Works. Attachements being sent are not unusual...generally Word, Excel, PDF or PowerPoint. Any suggestion so that I don't have to save to desktop?
3. Last question...laptop came with a webcam, the workings of which I am new to. Doesn't always open/work when I click on its icon...window opens and says " please plug in a supported webcam". Sometimes when I unplug from internet and reboot computer the webcam works.
Seems I'm having the same problems as some others here, but I can not find the solution. I just purchased a Vista 32 Home Basic machine last week. ALL email attachments are blocked. I made sure the -Do not allow attachments-.... is unchecked in the Security tab. I'm running AVG Anti-Virus and checked those settings as well. I do see the paper clip indicating an attachment in mmy Inbox but when I opent he email there is no attachment.
If I send an e-mail from my other computer (XP running outlook) to myself. The e-mail plus attachments is recived Ok on the XP computer. The e-mail does not have the attachments when recieved on the Vista / Windos mail computer. I DO get attachments if e-mail is sent from someone else.
Just configured Windows Mail on my new laptop, and I can send and receive messages okay, but I cannot receive attachments. There isn't even any indication that the attachment was blocked; it's just not there. Also, I cannot receive HTML formatted e-mails (I get a news headline service); I can just see the hyperlinks. I have unchecked (cleared) the box that blocks .exe files, etc, but I'm only trying to send Word docs (to myself at this point to see if everything is working).
Recently I can not open attachments in Windows Mail. I'll get the message :WindowsSystem32xxx.xls or xxx.doc can not be found. How can I solve this problem, in the past I did not have this problem....
Right out of the blue I cannot open attachments with a .doc extention..I can open PDF attachments but not .doc. I use Open Office latest version. I can however save these attachments (usually resumes, I am a recruiter) to a folder on my desk top and view them from the folder. When I do try to open these resumes within windows mail I get an error window that says "c:windowssystem32 henthedocumentname.
Whenever I try to send an attachment from windows mail, it parses the attachment into multiple files that get sent. I've looked for any properties to change but cannot find anything related. I've tried "send to" from the picture or file as well. It does send less files when I do this. I don't want to have manually compress (zip or whatever) and attachment every time I send.
I am having problems getting attachments to open on my Windows Mail. This started about a week ago right after I had to re-install McAfee Antivirus. I thought it had something to do with that so I went into it and disabled the email scan. It did not fix the problem. I also had SpySweeper installed on my computer but was told that with McAfee, I did not need it. So, I uninstalled it and it still didn't fix the problem. I also went into tools>options>security and made sure the option for "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" was not checked and it isn't.
vista/windows mail/office 2007 all installed. Error message to set associations in control panel. Have done this many times and seems that the correct icon is listed though when I go through the "change file association", the check box for "associate all the time" is greyed out so I cannot check it. If I save the attachments to the desktop, they open just fine but I want to be able to open them in Windows Mail. I saw the fix for .doc attachments. Is there one for exe also? Would I have to fix each extension/file type that I wish to open while in Window Mail.
I received an attachment of pictures in an email and the actual pictures showed up in the body of the email as well as an attachment. Is there a way to set Windows mail so it only comes as an attachment and does not display the pictures in the body of the email?
I have been reading all the messages from other who cannot open any attachment in Windows Mail. I have also tried all the suggestions but so far nothings is working for me. It doesn't seem to matter the extension (.jpeg, .htm, .wmv, .gif) none of them open. My screen fades out and I get "windows not responding" and have to close the program.
still cant open attachments in windows mail, can you send me some updates? this is my worst experience of a MS product ever. I doubt that this product has been tested properly and to ask your customers to do it is unfair? Have tried the file tye association have tried various versions of word already!
I suddenly find that any message containing an attachment causes windows mail to go into "not responding" mode when I attempt to open or save the attachment. This happens with all attachments, irrespective of the application. I can right click the file name and "save as" the attachment, which successfully saves it to disc, but this at the same time crashes windows mail as above.
About 1 week ago, I was no longer able to open any attachments in Windows Mail/Outlook Express. (didn't matter what kind of file). If I tried to save the file to the Desktop, I received an error message "the command failed to execute" with a help reference to this forum. Also, my download manager stopped working, and I was unable to download any files from the internet. I have read through all of the entries under this topic, and have tried all of the solutions.
1. Download problem was solved by downloading DownItAll from Firefox. 2. Email: a. The box marked "do not allow attachments to be saved..." under Options/Security is unchecked. "Block images and other content..." is also unchecked. b. Anti-virus- I was using AVG - I uninstalled it - no change. I installed Kaspersky 2009, ran complete virus scan - no change. c, Checked registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - no problems there d. Tried to restore to a previous point - no luck......
I do have IE7 and understand that this problem is even worse if you downloaded IE RECEIVING ATTACHMENTS: When I open an email that hase an attachment, I click on the paper clip. What comes up is this. In the pop up box at the top is the IE Icon (never seen this before) and next to it is this AT100146.htm. Below that in the same pop up window is the attachement. In this case it was two jpg,s. In my old outlook express program, the jpg was active and the description following the jpg icon which describes what the jpg is is also active. With windows Mail, the description that follows the jpg icon is NOT active so when I click on the attachemnt, NOTHING pops up. When I try to save the jpg attachmet, it defaults to the IE Icon previously mentioned and when you go to where that was saved and try to open it, you get blue screen.
Suddenly I cannot click on attachments to mail and have them open. This applies to any type of attachment, but most of mine are Office documents. When I try to open a Word document, it opens Word, and then a Word error message pops up saying: This file could not be found. (C:windowssystem32document name) I have unchecked the "do not allow attachments to be saved or opened" box (it was off already). I turned off email scan in Norton 360. No effect.I can, however, save the document and then open it. Which is timeconsuming.
I have recently done an upgrade on my internet explorer. I am unsure if my problem relates to this; however, I am unable to open documents in my emails (windows mail). I did not have any problems before hand. "This file does not have a program associated with it..." or "windows cannot find 'image.jpg'. Make sure you typed the name correctly..." " there was an error opening this document. This file cannot be found" are the error messages I receive. This is occurring so far with .pps , .pdf, and .jpg attachments on newly received messages and saved messages. Has any one had the same sort of problem or have a solution?
I have very limited knowledge with computer. Have Vista Home Premium 64 bit. I receive e-mails with pps or ppt attachments. Get msg about not having program associated and create association in set assn control panel. I do not know where this is, however I have read many post about this issue. I printed some instructions and tried to perform task about changing words open and show. When performing task I did not find the powerpoint viewer.slideshow.11shellshow but did see wording Hex Root or something similiar.
My Program file fm my Start Button says I have Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 2007. One of the links provided had another link wanting me to download for fixes but I was afraid of what else I might be downloading. if your instructions are not click specific it will be a waste of time because I know little about computers and at age 70 am just attempting to learn bascis like read "windows mail" that has attachments (pps and ppt)
I have a new computer with which I am not able to receive any attachments with Windows Mail. Under tools, I have deactivated "Read all message in plain text", "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" and "Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail". I have also uninstalled my Security software and turned off all Windows security.
When I send a message with an attachment to my work computer and copy it to myself, I receive the attachment from the copied message. However, when I forward the message from my work computer back to myself the attachment is stripped. I have sent the same message to a friend who has the same operating system and almost the same computer (however the cpu model is different) and he is able to receive the attachments using Windows Mail.