Opening Attaachments in oe6 Win Vista

[Fred]

Attachments will not open. Has been working for past year, but in the last
month or so attachments will not open. When I click on the attachment,
nothing happens. I can save the attachment and open it in Windows. Have
disabled firewall, anti virus, checked security settings, file associations,
etc.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Does the error message say something like, the file can not be found?
If so, that's a known issue that is affecting some who installed IE8.
One workaround is to uninstall IE8, which reverts you back to IE7.
Even without uninstalling IE8 you can make it work for all but TXT and
JPG attachments by doing the following:

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.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Did you recently install IE8?

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)? Were any of these applications running
in the background when you installed IE8?

Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Attachments will not open. Has been working for past year, but in
the last month or so attachments will not open. When I click on the
attachment, nothing happens. I can save the attachment and open it in
Windows. Have disabled firewall, anti virus, checked security
settings, file associations, etc.

Just to make sure:
AFAICS the subject is a bit misleading.
"OE6" is not working anymore under Vista.

So I assume that you are working with "Windows Mail" (aka WinMail).
Right?

If so: Dies really *nothing*at*all* happen when you try to open an
attachment?
No error message(s)?

Which type of attachments (type if files) did you try?
You may send a mail with a selection of attached files to yourself and
try opening them.

Rainald