Cannot open excel attachments

[Guest]

I am trying to open an excel attachment from my hotmail account. I am
receiving the following message: filename.xls cannot be accessed. The file
may be read only, or you may be trying to access a read only location. Or,
the server the document may be stored on is not responding. I get these
e-mails from work and have been able to open them previously and no one else
seems to be having the same problems. I am running excel 2003 sp2 and the
documents are the same. Please help me - Lisa

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Try to clean up your Temp folder

Reboot
Start>Run
Enter: %temp%
Delete all files and folders in the temp folder
Try again

 

[Dave Peterson]

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer. Maybe it'll fix the problem with the email
attachment, too?????

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

Maybe one of these will work for you.