How do I select what movie viewer in attachments

[Guest]

Hello. I would like to be able to select what program like windows media
player or nero player to use when opening my attachments in outlook 2003,
Were do I go to find it. Many Thanks. Terry.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Hello. I would like to be able to select what program like windows
media player or nero player to use when opening my attachments in
outlook 2003, Were do I go to find it. Many Thanks. Terry.

Outlook uses whatever is set up as a Windows file association....this isn't
an Outlook issue. Change the file associations you wish - go to control
panel, folder options, file types. If you're saying you want to switch 'on
the fly' you won't be able to do that - you'd need to save the attachment,
and then use "open with" in the context menu when you right click on it.

 

[Vanguard]

Hello. I would like to be able to select what program like windows
media
player or nero player to use when opening my attachments in outlook
2003,
Were do I go to find it. Many Thanks. Terry.

Go to the option in whatever program that you want to be the default
player for whatever filetype you are asking about but didn't mention.
Usually you'll find an option in the program to associate itself with
that filetype, so enable it. Then when you double-click or open that
filetype, that preferred player gets used. As Lanwench said, it
really isn't an Outlook issue. You would have the same problem if you
had saved the attachment to a file and then tried to double-click on
it. If the program doesn't provide an option to assign filetypes to
itself, and you can't figure it out in Explorer's Tools -> Folder
Options -> Filetypes settings, you could save the file, right-click on
it, select Open, and then select the particular program you want to
always use and enable the checkbox that says to always use that
program.