File Association

[Alfred Kaufmann]

I just installed Vista Home Premium for an elderly lady and she gets
easily confused. Relatives keep sending Power Point Shows, *.pps
files, and Outlook Express will not open them. It comes up with a
notice that you need to associate a program with files of this type
and to go into SET ASSOCIATIONS in the Control Panel. I must be going
blind because I have looked into the Control and cannot find where to
set this up. If someone knows where MS has hidden this, please let
me know.

Strangely enough if you save the file, go to the folder and double
click on that file it will open with the PPS Viewer, so file of type
PPS are associated properly. So why will they not open in Outlook
Express? (I considering this a workaround but this lady can't find
them after she saves them. :-( )

Ak

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I just installed Vista Home Premium for an elderly lady and she gets
easily confused. Relatives keep sending Power Point Shows, *.pps
files, and Outlook Express will not open them. It comes up with a
notice that you need to associate a program with files of this type
and to go into SET ASSOCIATIONS in the Control Panel. I must be going
blind because I have looked into the Control and cannot find where to
set this up. If someone knows where MS has hidden this, please let
me know.

Strangely enough if you save the file, go to the folder and double
click on that file it will open with the PPS Viewer, so file of type
PPS are associated properly. So why will they not open in Outlook
Express? (I considering this a workaround but this lady can't find
them after she saves them. :-( )

Ak

You can't install Outlook Express on Vista. Please clarify.

 

[Alfred Kaufmann]

You can't install Outlook Express on Vista. Please clarify.

Sorry I meant that new e-mail program, whatever it is called now, that
took over from Outlook Express and almost seems to work just like the
old Outlook Express. (It had the same problem)

Al

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Sorry I meant that new e-mail program, whatever it is called now, that
took over from Outlook Express and almost seems to work just like the
old Outlook Express. (It had the same problem)

This article was written for OE but probably applies to WinMail too:
Unable to open .PPS attachments directly from Outlook Express
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ppsopen.htm