attachments

[mark]

cannot open any attachments....the command failed to execute......I've
changed nothing, one day I can, the next I cant...
A simple solution would be appreciated by anyone....

 

[Peter Foldes]

Mark

And what is the details and IE version and OS version just to start with

To fix this issue read the below

http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm

 

[Rainald Taesler]

cannot open any attachments....the command failed to execute......I've
changed nothing, one day I can, the next I cant...

Do you have IE8 installed?
If so: Welcome to the Club!

Which types of files are affected?
Which error messages do you receive?

A simple solution would be appreciated by anyone....

If it's the IE8-WinMail, there is not even a complicated solution
(except uninstalling IE8).

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

mark wrote:

To fix this issue read the below

http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm

What there might be on topic for the issue discussed here?

Rainald

 

[Peter Foldes]

Rainald

Are you sure it is IE8 that is the issue for the OP here

Or

Attachments in Windows Mail with IE7 ? IE8? or *.doc or ppt? or pdf? or txt? Or
even Windows 7 with a client installed Email Client. So many possibilities but the
OP did not post the details. Many times it is not even the email client that they
post about and post in the wrong newsgroup.

Anything is possible when NO details are posted. So my answer to the OP is quite
valid and yours is a little off from what it should also have been unless you
possess a working and up to date Crystal Ball

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Are you sure it is IE8 that is the issue for the OP here

No, not "sure" at all.
It might be a possibility.
And that's why *asked* the OP to give us more details.

But that does not make any difference.
I can not at all see why you posted the above quoted link and what the
OP might have gained by opening the site you pointed to :-( :-(
No nothing there that would be related to the issue discussed here.

Attachments in Windows Mail with IE7 ? IE8? or *.doc or ppt? or pdf?
or txt? Or even Windows 7 with a client installed Email Client. So
many possibilities but the OP did not post the details. Many times it
is not even the email client that they post about and post in the
wrong newsgroup.

No idea on the actual situation on the side of the OP (that's why I

Anything is possible when NO details are posted.
RightyRight!

So my answer to the OP is quite valid

I take the liberty to heavily disagree.
Pls be so kind as to open your link and see what is said there.
Nothing, really nothing at all, what might have to do with the OP's
problem.

It might have been OK to post the reference in order to tell the OP that
the way he had been asking would not have been appropriate and that he
might pls explain his situation a bit more.

But that was not what you said.
You said "To fix this issue read the below".
And in the thread shown "below" there is absolutely nothing related to
the subject of this thread.
Therefore the link is just useless the way you posted it.

and yours is a little off from what it should also have been unless
you possess a working and up to date Crystal Ball

Which one of my postings?
My reply to *You*"?
No "Crystal Ball" needed at all in order to see that your reference was
really useless <g,d&r>

My reply to the OP?
No statement and not even assumptions.
I just *asked* him.
And carefully added a conclusion with a *condition* <!>.

Rainald

 

[Ted]

Hi Peter, this is Ted. At first I was annoyed when I was reading the source
message to this reply (see below), and then amused when I discovered what
was really going on. The last thing I read in this message was the part where
the sender seemed to be chiding "Peter" because he had not replied to
the newsgroup and telling him that assistance by email would not be
acknowledged!! When I checked to see who the sender of the message was I
had to laugh at myself for not noticing that you were Peter, and for not
recognizing that whole thing to be your standard signature. But I do think
it would help confused souls like myself if you put your name above the double
dash ( -- ) rather than below it. Just an idea.

Have a great weekend!
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~

Anything is possible when NO details are posted. So my answer to the OP is quite
valid and yours is a little off from what it should also have been unless you
possess a working and up to date Crystal Ball

 

[Peter Foldes]

Danke und guten nacht Rainald

 

[Armin Wolf]

A simple solution would be appreciated by anyone....

Recovery to a Backup before the mysrery change.
(Systemwiderherstellung)

C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Recovery to a Backup before the mysrery change.
(Systemwiderherstellung)

C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe

Or simply uninstalling IE8.

Rainald

 

[Peter K]

cannot open any attachments....the command failed to execute......I've
changed nothing, one day I can, the next I cant...
A simple solution would be appreciated by anyone....

Open IE8
Select 'Tools', 'Internet Options'
Click on 'Manage add-ons'
Under 'Add-on types' click on Accelarators'
In the right hand pane right click on 'E-mail with Windows Live' and select
'Disable'

 

[Rainald Taesler]

:

Open IE8
Select 'Tools', 'Internet Options'
Click on 'Manage add-ons'
Under 'Add-on types' click on Accelarators'
In the right hand pane right click on 'E-mail with Windows Live' and
select 'Disable'

Thnakd for the suggestion.
It does not change anything, however, on my system.

Rainald

 

[Peter K]

Open IE8
Select 'Tools', 'Internet Options'
Click on 'Manage add-ons'
Under 'Add-on types' click on Accelarators'
In the right hand pane right click on 'E-mail with Windows Live' and select
'Disable'

Sorry, the above procedure doesn't really work. It appeared to work only
because after I changed the options and closed IE8, temp files were deleted
so the attachment worked!!
As a workaround and with the help of the AutoIt community I created an exe
file from the au3 file which consists of:
#include <File.au3>

$IETfolder =
RegRead("HKCU\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\shell
folders", "Cache") & "\Content.IE5"

_DirRemoveContents($IETfolder)

Func _DirRemoveContents($folder)
Local $list_of_contents, $status
$list_of_contents = _FileListToArray($folder)
If StringRight($folder, 1) <> "\" Then $folder = $folder & "\"
If @error = 1 Then Return 3 ; No Files\Folders Found
For $a = 1 To $list_of_contents[0]
$status = FileRecycle($folder & $list_of_contents[$a])
Next
MsgBox(64, "", " TEMPORARY FILES WERE DELETED", 2)

EndFunc ;==>_DirRemoveContents

Compile the above script and create a shortcut to it on your Desktop and
whenever your attachments don't open, just doubleclick on the shortcut.
Hope this helps,
Peter K

 

[Emilio2000]

Another person, named Silverhawk, came up with the correct solution (in a
different thread). It appears that an automatic update of Windows Mail
caused the link used to open Windows Mail to not work properly. Delete the
link, and then create a new one from the basic program in the Start "All
Programs" menu. Here's how Silverhawk describes it:

I noticed that if I start windows mail from
the IE8 browser, then it appears to work ok. But if I start windows mail from
the start menu, that is when I have problems. With that all said. I went to
the start menu and removed the shortcut from the start menu, then I went to
the applacation source and started the program from there, and tried it again.
And everything seems to be working fine. I then re-pinned it back into the
start menu.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Another person, named Silverhawk, came up with the correct solution
(in a different thread). It appears that an automatic update of
Windows Mail caused the link used to open Windows Mail to not work
properly. Delete the link, and then create a new one from the basic
program in the Start "All Programs" menu. Here's how Silverhawk
describes it:

I noticed that if I start windows mail from
the IE8 browser, then it appears to work ok. But if I start windows
mail from the start menu, that is when I have problems. With that all
said. I went to the start menu and removed the shortcut from the
start menu, then I went to the applacation source and started the
program from there, and tried it again. And everything seems to be
working fine. I then re-pinned it back into the start menu.

It only SEEMS to work.
What's done this way is nothing else but my workaround (often posted by
Gary) to edit the "Start in:" path in the standard shortcut.

Mist types if files will work. But the problem is persistent with JPG
and TXT files.
Try these.
You may send a test mail with TXT and JPG attachments to yourself.
Test it several times, the problem may take a while until it appears.

Rainald