Cannot open PDF attachments

[Best]

For some reason, in Windows Mail, PDF documents sent as attachments are no
longer able to be opened. I have to save them first (save attachments), then
navigate to the file in windows explorer.
This just started a couple of weeks ago, and I can't seem to see a solution.
Any thoughts?

 

[Best]

You can try this and see if it works for you.
Unable to open .PPS attachments directly from Windows Mail in Windows
Vista:
'Unable to open .PPS attachments directly from Windows Mail in Windows
Vista' (http://tinyurl.com/27mzp3)

*Thanks. There were 10 files there referencing PDF, so no sure which one to
tamper with. Maybe I should e-mail the provider?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

For some reason, in Windows Mail, PDF documents sent as attachments
are no longer able to be opened. I have to save them first (save
attachments), then navigate to the file in windows explorer.
This just started a couple of weeks ago, and I can't seem to see a
solution. Any thoughts?

Did you upgrade to IE8?

Rainald

 

[Best]

Did you upgrade to IE8?

Rainald

*I have it, but am currently using FF.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

*I have it, but am currently using FF.

Thanks fro the reply.
My question was not aiming at the currently used favorite browser.
It was just about whether IE8 is *INSTALLED*.

As to my experience installing IE8 causes serious troubles with opening
attachments in WinMail.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

You can try this and see if it works for you.
Unable to open .PPS attachments directly from Windows Mail in Windows
Vista:
'Unable to open .PPS attachments directly from Windows Mail in Windows
Vista' (http://tinyurl.com/27mzp3)

The problem appears with all types of files. IE8 is the culprit!
It's not a problem with file-associations as you have seem to have had
in mind.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

For some reason, in Windows Mail, PDF documents sent as
attachments are no longer able to be opened. I have to save them
first (save attachments), then navigate to the file in windows
explorer.
This just started a couple of weeks ago, and I can't seem to
see a solution. Any thoughts?

Did you upgrade to IE8?

*I have it, but am currently using FF.

Thanks fro the reply.
My question was not aiming at the currently used favorite browser.
It was just about whether IE8 is *INSTALLED*.

As to my experience installing IE8 causes serious troubles with
opening attachments in WinMail.

*I wonder if uninstalling, or downgrading, will help? Any experience
with that?

If it would really be the IE8 problem (and not one of the "known
problems" with Adobe [especially Reader vs. Acrobat]), putting the
system back to IE7 by uninstalling IE8 should do the job.

* Bingo! I uninstalled IE8, and now everything works fine. Thanks for
all the suggestions. Microsoft must have had a lot of other problems
with it, as they had a site dedicated to the "uninstall'. Worked
seamlessly.

Thanks fro the feedback.
Good to hear that it works now.

Rainald

 

[Karon]

I am having a similar problem but I do not have IE8 yet (still on IE7). I
can't open attachments at all.

For others who may be interested in the IE8 uninstall procedure,
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)

Best wrote:

For some reason, in Windows Mail, PDF documents sent as
attachments are no longer able to be opened. I have to save them
first (save attachments), then navigate to the file in windows
explorer.
This just started a couple of weeks ago, and I can't seem to see a
solution. Any thoughts?

Did you upgrade to IE8?

*I have it, but am currently using FF.

Thanks fro the reply.
My question was not aiming at the currently used favorite browser.
It was just about whether IE8 is *INSTALLED*.

As to my experience installing IE8 causes serious troubles with
opening attachments in WinMail.

*I wonder if uninstalling, or downgrading, will help? Any experience
with that?

If it would really be the IE8 problem (and not one of the "known
problems" with Adobe [especially Reader vs. Acrobat]), putting the
system back to IE7 by uninstalling IE8 should do the job.

* Bingo! I uninstalled IE8, and now everything works fine. Thanks for all
the suggestions. Microsoft must have had a lot of other problems with it, as
they had a site dedicated to the "uninstall'. Worked seamlessly.

 

[Dave]

Did you try
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...ectly-from-Windows-Mail-in-Windows-Vista.html



--
Windows 7 beta
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
http://download.live.com/wlmail

I am having a similar problem but I do not have IE8 yet (still on IE7). I
can't open attachments at all.

For others who may be interested in the IE8 uninstall procedure,
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)

Best wrote:

For some reason, in Windows Mail, PDF documents sent as
attachments are no longer able to be opened. I have to save them
first (save attachments), then navigate to the file in windows
explorer.
This just started a couple of weeks ago, and I can't seem to see
a
solution. Any thoughts?

Did you upgrade to IE8?

*I have it, but am currently using FF.

Thanks fro the reply.
My question was not aiming at the currently used favorite browser.
It was just about whether IE8 is *INSTALLED*.

As to my experience installing IE8 causes serious troubles with
opening attachments in WinMail.

*I wonder if uninstalling, or downgrading, will help? Any experience
with that?

If it would really be the IE8 problem (and not one of the "known
problems" with Adobe [especially Reader vs. Acrobat]), putting the
system back to IE7 by uninstalling IE8 should do the job.
* Bingo! I uninstalled IE8, and now everything works fine. Thanks for
all
the suggestions. Microsoft must have had a lot of other problems with
it, as
they had a site dedicated to the "uninstall'. Worked seamlessly.