downloading pictures to Windows Mail

[Guest]

When I send or receive pictures, it takes forever for them to download to
Windows Mail. Last night my brother sent me 6 pictures in two different
emails and it took over an hour for my mail to download. I bought a new pc
preinstalled with Vista Home Basic and I'm on dial-up. Can someone tell me
why this takes so long? Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[John Inzer]

When I send or receive pictures, it takes forever for them to
download to Windows Mail. Last night my brother sent me 6 pictures
in two different emails and it took over an hour for my mail to
download. I bought a new pc preinstalled with Vista Home Basic and
I'm on dial-up. Can someone tell me why this takes so long? Does
anyone else have this problem?

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A dial-up connection will be slow to
download large files. Do you know
the memory size of the pictures?

--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
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Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you have an antivirus program, be sure to turn off its email
scanning option. See:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Gary VanderMolen

 

[mikeyhsd]

have him compress the pictures before sending. usually if you right click on picture and send to email recipient it will ask about compressing to send.



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When I send or receive pictures, it takes forever for them to download to
Windows Mail. Last night my brother sent me 6 pictures in two different
emails and it took over an hour for my mail to download. I bought a new pc
preinstalled with Vista Home Basic and I'm on dial-up. Can someone tell me
why this takes so long? Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[JR DOUGLAS]

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JR DOUGLAS

 

[CU]

I bought a new laptop with Vista installed in Sept. Since switching over from
my desktop with XP, my email has gotten terribly slow! So frustrating. With
my desktop, I could begin the download of little videos and pictures, walk
away, and a half an hour or so, I would come back and they would be done. And
if I don't sit right there and babysit it, within 15 min. my dial up will
come up with a message saying there has been no activity and will close in 45
seconds! I have contacted Netzero, and they assured me it was Vista. I did go
in and set the time to turn off the internet after lack of activity to 4
hours, and it's like it ignores it. Argh! I want XP back.