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Laura

I have a factory install version of trend microcillin, if I unistall it how
do I get it back if that is not the problem with the opening of attachements.
As others have said I have been using it for over a year and had no problems
until I updated vista lately

Laura
 
If you don't have the install disk for Trend Micro, you can always
download and install one of the free antivirus programs. Both
AVG Free and Avast Free work well with Windows Mail.
 
Gary I have removed trend and it didn't help. I then tried downloading
windows live mail and it never showed up on my desk top after 10 minutes of
downloading. what the hec is going on.......I just want to open my
attachments and why all of a sudden is this not working. I am really ticked
about this.
 
Hard to say what's going on since I can't look over your shoulder.
Sounds like you are having some general computer problems if downloaded
files don't show up. If you have a slow computer, you probably should have
let it continue downloading longer than 10 minutes.
 
Gary the download was finished .......and my computer is not slow it is only
a year old and unfortunately came with vista. Do you ever actually solve
these problems for people of am I just wasting my time........I am convinced
it was a recent update I received on windows that is causing the problem. Can
you at least answer that. I have used the same programs for a year and now
there is a problem I NEED to open my attachments so please help me.
Laura
 
I think my track record for resolving Windows Mail issues is pretty good.
But one person can't possibly knows the answers to all conceivable issues.

If you need urgent access to your attachments, try these two workarounds:
1) Save the attachment, then open it outside of Windows Mail, or
2) Access your emails via webmail.

In the long run, your problem with installing Windows Live Mail needs to
be resolved. Go into Control Panel, Programs and Features, and look for
something that says "Windows Live..." Uninstall if it shows up. Then
try downloading again: http://download.live.com/wlmail
 
Gary, I bought a new quad core last fall. Windows Mail opened .wmv files and
..jpg files just fine until a couple of weeks ago and now it will not. I do
not have web mail and I shouldn't have to use web mail to read mail and open
attachments.

Personally, I have not seen where you really have helped anyone solve this
problem except to tell them to save all attachments out of the email program
and open them or to use webmail.

There is one lot of not to like about Windows Vista and this is just one of
the issues.

(e-mail address removed)
 
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Gary,
I Personally, I have not seen where you really have helped anyone solve
this
problem except to tell them to save all attachments out of the email
program
and open them or to use webmail.

There is one lot of not to like about Windows Vista and this is just one
of
the issues.
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Who are you? (e-mail address removed)

Is this a thread that you started?

If not, then please start your own, with specific detail related to your
circumstances.

If you can afford " I bought a new quad core last fall", then why come here
for free advice, and then castigate those who offer it?

Go to your supplier under Warrantee.

Did you save to disc, did it work then?

Or are you a big believer in Norton Internet Security?

mac
 
I am not a believer in using any heavy utility programs on a PC. My first PC
was a TRS-80 upgraded to 16KB running a Z80-A so I have been around awhile.
This board should either provide useful information or not exist. To suggest
to people that they should disable their virus checking of incoming email is
laughable. How long would any PC last without spyware, malware and virus
protection?

Was your comment a big help? What do you think.
 
[email protected] said:
I am not a believer in using any heavy utility programs on a PC. My first
PC
was a TRS-80 upgraded to 16KB running a Z80-A so I have been around
awhile.
This board should either provide useful information or not exist. To
suggest
to people that they should disable their virus checking of incoming email
is
laughable. How long would any PC last without spyware, malware and virus
protection?

Was your comment a big help? What do you think.
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Why You Don't Need Your Anti-Virus Program to Scan Your E-Mail
We will explain why we stand by this and why many experts stand by this as
well.

See http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm


See also from Norton themselves.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...6d4e006aaa94/4ba5fc8ef939c44c88256c7500723cf0

Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email
Scanning?
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against
viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus
Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive,
including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer
on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum
protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure
that you have the most recent virus definitions.

See also:
From
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx#EOAAC

Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption

When encountering the symptoms of DBX corruption, many people immediately
fear that their computer is infected with a virus. As surprising and ironic
as it may seem though, the most common cause of DBX corruption is not a
virus, but rather anti-virus programs that are configured to scan incoming
or outgoing e-mail. Even the most well-known anti-virus programs have
exhibited this problem from time to time. To lessen the risk of such
corruption you should disable the e-mail scanning module in your anti-virus
program. This is usually easy to do by looking at the user-configurable
options in the anti-virus program. It is not at all necessary to scan e-mail
for viruses to protect your computer.

Now before you dismiss me as mad, let me explain why e-mail scanning is
unnecessary. Almost every anti-virus program for Windows installs by default
a system scan that runs in the background every time Windows starts. This
scan is necessary to protect your computer. If you receive a virus in an
e-mail attachment, the virus cannot do anything at all until you actually
open the attachment. At that time Outlook Express extracts the attachment
from the message and saves it to the Temporary Internet Files folder on your
hard disk and attempts to open the file. And it is precisely at that moment
that a background system scan will detect the virus, provided it is able to
do so, and stop the virus from executing. The system scan will usually
delete the infected file from the Temporary Internet Files folder, or else
move it to quarantine. To remove the infected e-mail message in Outlook
Express, simply hold the Shift key while you press the Delete key. That's
all it takes to keep your computer safe, both from e-mail viruses and e-mail
anti-virus scanners. Scanning e-mail as it arrives therefore adds nothing to
your level of protection. It might indeed make you feel more protected, but
that feeling is an illusion. If the system scan is unable to detect the
virus, the e-mail scan will fail to do so also.



Laughable eh?

YMMV?

mac
 
What makes you think we advocate users to run without an antivirus?
We've done no such thing here. However, email scanning by the antivirus
is redundant an unnecessary, as admitted by the originator of the email
scanning concept, Symantec (Norton). Being an early adopter does not
necessarily qualify you as an expert in all matters related to computers.
 
when I open any attachment , open a error said command failed to execute
 
Laura,
I have to agree with you 100%, I never had this problem before, it just
happend after the update of vista a few days ago, and all you so called tech
geeks out there, so far I have not read any solution that helps me. All these
suggested actions take too much time and are a hassle when you have a busy
life and just would like to see you e-mail attatchment when you want to.
There has got to be a way to get this to work properly. I can't believe how
many post there are on this issue and no help. So now we are to wait till the
next update for our mail to work properly again?
This is really frustrating.
 
Chrissy said:
Laura,
I have to agree with you 100%, I never had this problem before, it just
happend after the update of vista a few days ago, and all you so called tech
geeks out there...
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Chrissy, we are not really "Tech Geeks" but ordinary Windows users like
you - we sit here all over the world, read your complaints and if we
know what has caused your problem (Or think we know) we try to help, but
we do NOT want to give you bad advice.

Lots of Windows users have the same problems you have had and Microsoft
created these newsgroups so we can help each other - I guess it's like
facebook in plain text. It's been around for years.

The cool thing is that many complaints are the same and they happen
after an update and I bet you accepted IE8 which Microsoft suggested was
"Important".

Gary gave you some good ideas, do what he says.
 
Chrissy said:
I have to agree with you 100%, I never had this problem before, it
just happend after the update of vista a few days ago, and all you so
called tech geeks out there, so far I have not read any solution that
helps me. All these suggested actions take too much time and are a
hassle when you have a busy life and just would like to see you
e-mail attatchment when you want to. There has got to be a way to get
this to work properly. I can't believe how many post there are on
this issue and no help. So now we are to wait till the next update
for our mail to work properly again?
This is really frustrating.
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I fully understand your frustration.
But there ain't no use in ranting.
The problem is totally erratic and only appears in some system whereas
it dies not show up in others. So far no one has got an idea on how to
fix which obviously got broken by the IE8 install - except
un-installing.

As different symptoms have been reported:

1.) Does problem appear on your system(s) with *all* types of
attachments or with some file types only?

2.) How about JPG and TXT attachments?

3.) Which error message do you receive?
Are they always the same or is there a difference according to the type
of files?

TIA
Rainald
 
I am on Vista Premium SP2 with IE7 and Windows Live Mail 9 and am
experiencing this bug. On other forums, I discovered a partial solution:
Change the Start-in directory for the shortcut used to launch the mail
program to %UserProfile%. The you can open non-image attachments without
having to save them first. The image attachments will automatically show in
the email anyway, so it's not a big deal that they can't be opened in an
external program without saving to disk first.
 
You are quoting a post of mine that is at least three months old.
Since then Microsoft has released a fix for the incompatibility that
Windows Mail had with IE8: KB972260.

I'm not familiar with "Windows Live Mail 9". The current Windows Live Mail
version is 2009 build 14.0.8089.0726.
 
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