Command failed to excecute for attachments

[Rainald Taesler]

My Outlook had me locked out of my attachments also. I am running AVG
antivirus. I opened AVG and went to the email scanning portion. I
opened the "Advance settings" in the tool section and then to the
"Scanning properties" section then down to the third box marked "Scan
Inside Archives" and un-checked the box. Then hit Apply. IT WORKED !!
I am getting my attachments now.

Congratulations!
I was pretty sure that with the error message you got it would not be
the IE8-WinMail bug widely discussed here.

Rainald

 

[janeinvegas]

I recently received the "command failed to execute" message when I tried to
open an attachment on an e-mail that I had previously opened w/o problems.
Why is this? And what do I do to be able to open the attmnt once again?

 

[t-4-2]

If you have installed IE8 ( Internet Explorer 8 ), UN-install it.
If you do NOT have IE8, the following tutorial should be able to help you :
RE : Unable to open attachments directly from WM and WLM
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...ectly-from-Windows-Mail-in-Windows-Vista.html
t-4-2

 

[Sam Hobbs]

I often see messages such as the following in which all I see is quoted
text; no reply. Am I missing something?

 

[t-4-2]

No, you have not missed anything. This seems to be prevalent throughout
msnews.microsoft.com .
I can only deduce that people with the same problem just " piggy-back "
other's thread. Won't even bother to type a word or two. Disgustingly LAZY.
t-4-2

 

[jermiah long]

I had a problem with attachments in email which wouldn't open. The
solution
which worked for me is to save the attachment as an attachment. Then open
the
attachment which has been saved and it now opens perfectly. When the
attachment is opened by the correct program which recognizes the file
format
it will open. One of the examples I had was a wmv file which I saved as
an
attachment and saved in documents ( the default ) and opened by Windows
media
player. By the way I'm running a 64 bit Vista operating system on an
Inspiron. 6 GB of memory. If the attacment is of a different file format
for instance a word file the same applies only it opened by Word. I'm also
running Mcafee antivirus which came installed on the computer and I
changed
nothing in that program or any internet options.

I hope this helps. Give it a try.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

jermiah long wrote:

NIL

You just replied with quoting the whole a branch in this thread.

What do you want to report and/or ask?

Rainald

 

[jermiah long]

for instance a word file the same applies only it opened by Word. I'm also
running Mcafee antivirus which came installed on the computer and I
changed
nothing in that program or any internet options.

I hope this helps. Give it a try.

 

[mkampers]

I had a problem with attachments in email which wouldn't open. The solution
which worked for me is to save the attachment as an attachment. Then open the
attachment which has been saved and it now opens perfectly. When the
attachment is opened by the correct program which recognizes the file format
it will open. One of the examples I had was a wmv file which I saved as an
attachment and saved in documents ( the default ) and opened by Windows media
player. By the way I'm running a 64 bit Vista operating system on an
Inspiron. 6 GB of memory. If the attacment is of a different file format
for instance a word file the same applies only it opened by Word. I'm also
running Mcafee antivirus which came installed on the computer and I changed
nothing in that program or any internet options.

I hope this helps. Give it a try.

 

[mkampers]

I had a problem with attachments in email which wouldn't open. The solution
which worked for me is to save the attachment as an attachment. Then open the
attachment which has been saved and it now opens perfectly. When the
attachment is opened by the correct program which recognizes the file format
it will open. One of the examples I had was a wmv file which I saved as an
attachment and saved in documents ( the default ) and opened by Windows media
player. By the way I'm running a 64 bit Vista operating system on an
Inspiron. 6 GB of memory. If the attacment is of a different file format
for instance a word file the same applies only it opened by Word. I'm also
running Mcafee antivirus which came installed on the computer and I changed
nothing in that program or any internet options.

I hope this helps. Give it a try.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[bob right]

Here's what works for me: Delete Temp Internet Files and it works every time.
What I mean by that, is when you get the 'Command failed To Execute' message
when attempting to open attachments in Winmail, simply go tp IE and
Tools>Delete Temp Internet Files. Then retry to open the attachment in
Winmail and it should open fine.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

:

Here's what works for me: Delete Temp Internet Files and it works
every time. What I mean by that, is when you get the 'Command failed
To Execute' message when attempting to open attachments in Winmail,
simply go tp IE and Tools>Delete Temp Internet Files. Then retry to
open the attachment in Winmail and it should open fine.

Unfortunately this is not a fix.
The problem will re-appear pretty soon.

Just try it with TXT and JPG attachments, numerous times, doing some
normal work like browsing and opening HTML mails in between.

Rainald

 

[newcojohn]

penpen,

Thank you! I had a problem not being allowed to open an attachment, like
smimi3 did.
I followed your suggestions and it works fine now.

Thank you agiain

 

[Sarah]

You need to follow the directions at the bottom. Windows updated yesterday
and it reset things so I followed the directions below and it worked.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Sarah,
if a system is affetced by the IE8-WinMail bug, normally just unchecking the
option (as smimi3 suggested) is not sufficient. It may work a few times but
not persistent.

There is no fix - except uninstalling IE8 (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700/en-us )

The problems can be reduced to JPG and TXT files (all other files types
opening fine) with a workaround:
Right-click on the shortcut that you use to open Windows Mail.
Select Properties.
In the field labeled 'Start in' change the entered value to
%UserProfile%.
Click OK.
Restart Windows Mail and try opening attachments.

Rainald

 

[Vegas Bailey]

I have the same problem "command failed to execute" message ...someone help
up Microsoft captives. All of a sudden when I hit the .wmv icon it doesn't
play on the video player. What happened, a bad download from the master?
PLEASE help?...someone....anyone?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I have the same problem "command failed to execute" message
...someone help up Microsoft captives. All of a sudden when I hit
the .wmv icon it doesn't play on the video player. What happened, a
bad download from the master?

It could be a bad download, it could be the IE8-WinMail bug.
We'd just need a bit mire information.

Have you recently installed IE8?

Can you open the file after having saved it to the desktop or a folder?

How about other file types of attachments?

What happens when you try to open JPG and TXT attachments?

Which "security" (AntiVirus) program are you using?

Rainald