Command Failed to Execute

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Got this message today for the first time. We saved the file to our Documents
& opened it there. Go to file--save attachments--save
 
We've been getting this problem repeatedly this week -- whenever we install a
Microsoft Windows Security updates.

The work around suggested -- saving attachments to your desktop rather than
opening them up in mail is fine. But if someone forwards you a message from
another correspondent -- I can't open it. I get this "failed" command.

From what I've seen this problem seems to be the result of two MicroSoft
Windows programs fighting each other -- specifically IE8 and Windows Mail.
(HELLO? IS SOMEONE AT MICROSOFT WORKING ON THIS?) It seems to happen every
other time a new Security Update is installed.

HELP!

FYI -- I'm using MicroSoft Windows Live One Care as my antivirus/internet
security program. So that SHOULDN'T be the problem.
 
To avoid confusion, please begin a new thread about your specific problems.
State your IE version and full Windows version (e.g., Vista SP1; Vista SP2)
in your first post.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

We've been getting this problem repeatedly this week -- whenever we
install
a Microsoft Windows Security updates.

The work around suggested -- saving attachments to your desktop rather
than
opening them up in mail is fine. But if someone forwards you a message
from
another correspondent -- I can't open it. I get this "failed" command.

From what I've seen this problem seems to be the result of two MicroSoft
Windows programs fighting each other -- specifically IE8 and Windows Mail.
(HELLO? IS SOMEONE AT MICROSOFT WORKING ON THIS?) It seems to happen every
other time a new Security Update is installed.

HELP!

FYI -- I'm using MicroSoft Windows Live One Care as my antivirus/internet
security program. So that SHOULDN'T be the problem.
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Please explain why i should "upgrade" to Windows Live Mail. This computer,
and it's software is just 3 weeks old.
 
That question has been answered many times before, so be assured that Gary
has provided the answer in the past. Also note that there are sometimes more
than a hundred questions a say answered by just a few volunteers. The
traditional advice for newsgroups is that people read many previous threads
before asking questions in a newsgroup, but in that is seldom done in this
newsgroup. It should be done and probably most questions would not even
exist if people were to simply look for previous answers.

Windows Live Mail is an upgrade because it has been revised since release of
Vista, whereas Windows Mail has not been revised since release of Vista. I
know that many people don't like Windows Live Mail but I can't speak from
experience since I have not yet tried it. Windows Live Mail certainly sounds
advantageous since Microsoft will fix bugs in it but they won't fix any of
the bugs that exist in Windows Mail.
 
RASmith83151,
The matter is not why you should or should not.
The matter is, in order to solve the problem, there are only 2 alternatives.
Un-install IE8 or upgrade to Windows Live Mail.
Until or unless Microsoft comes up with a " fix ", we can debate till
kingdom come and we still have only 2 alternatives.
t-4-2
 
There are many of us who do not consider WLMail an upgrade from WinMail,
especially since all WinMail development was stopped by executive fiat in
June 2006 while Vista was still in beta.

WLMail could be considered a replacement for the unfinished application
called Windows Mail, however.
 
This depends on the definition of upgrade and "replacement for the
unfinished application".
 
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