opening pictures from email with Picture Viewer

When we get an email from someone and it has pictures attached (.jbg), and
then we open it, or double click on the attachment, picture viewer comes up.
It takes as much as 10+seconds for the picture to become visible. Sometimes
during the time it takes to come up it will say the picture viewer is "(not
responding)" but then it will eventually come up.

In XP I never had this issue or delay. I now have Vista home premium and
this confuses me.

Is there a fix or some way I can work around this delay.

Wayne Olsen

wsolsen@verizon.net

/wayne s olsen/ said:
> When we get an email from someone and it has pictures attached (.jpg), and
> then we open it, or double click on the attachment, picture viewer comes up.
> It takes as much as 10+seconds for the picture to become visible. Sometimes
> during the time it takes to come up it will say the picture viewer is "(not
> responding)" but then it will eventually come up.
>
> In XP I never had this issue or delay. I now have Vista home premium and
> this confuses me.
>
> Is there a fix or some way I can work around this delay.

I did not experience a lengthy delay - or error - when using the pic viewer.

You may want to substitute a different, very versatile FREE image viewer
and manipulator, as I did. Irfanview is available via http://irfanview.com

Once it's installed, go to Control Panel|DEFAULT programs|CHANGE
ASSOCIATIONS...and associate .jpg with I_view32.exe, which is in the
Program Files|Irfanview directory (folder).