File associations for attachments

[Jim Mehl]

Using Windows Mail under Vista, I am having trouble with some file
types. .pdf and .jpg files both give me an error message saying that
"This file does not have a program associated ...". And yet when I go
to Control Panel->File Associations, .pdf is associated with Adobe
Reader and .jpg is associated with Paint. When I click on one of
these file types in any other context, the association works fine.

Any idea what Mail's problem might be?

Jim Mehl

 

[Guest]

Using Windows Mail under Vista, I am having trouble with some file
types. .pdf and .jpg files both give me an error message saying that
"This file does not have a program associated ...". And yet when I go
to Control Panel->File Associations, .pdf is associated with Adobe
Reader and .jpg is associated with Paint. When I click on one of
these file types in any other context, the association works fine.

Any idea what Mail's problem might be?

Jim Mehl

There's a separate set of associations within Windows Mail that you also
need to fix.

<http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/236/1/Unable-to-open-PDF-attachments-from-Windows-Mail.html>

This looks like a good place to ask for a similar procedure for the .jpg
files:

http://www.winhelponline.com/categories/Windows-Vista/Windows-Mail/

 

[Jim Mehl]

There's a separate set of associations within Windows Mail that you also
need to fix.

<http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/236/1/Unable-to-open-PDF-attachments-from-Windows-Mail.html>

This looks like a good place to ask for a similar procedure for the .jpg
files:

http://www.winhelponline.com/categories/Windows-Vista/Windows-Mail/

I tried the unassoc.exe utility. Didn't help.

Jim

 

[Jim Mehl]

I tried the unassoc.exe utility. Didn't help.

Jim

Cancel. I did make it work, at least for .pdf files. But it occurs to me
that
this sort of thing should have been fixed by MS long ago.

Jim

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Run the JPG association fix from here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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I tried the unassoc.exe utility. Didn't help.

Jim

Cancel. I did make it work, at least for .pdf files. But it occurs to me
that
this sort of thing should have been fixed by MS long ago.

Jim