Problems opening attachments

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I am using outlook express on a Windows XP machine. My problem is that on
unknown attachments I am not being prompted to choose which program I want to
use to open the file.
I would go into folder options to make the association but the file
extension is never the same, so that would be useless.
Is there somewhere I need to go or something I can change so that I get
prompted to choose which program to use to open these attachments?

Jason

 

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shift-right click then select "Open With" and browse to the program you want
to open the file. If you want the same program to always open that file,
there is a checkbox you can click.

"JasonC" wrote:

> I am using outlook express on a Windows XP machine. My problem is that on
> unknown attachments I am not being prompted to choose which program I want to
> use to open the file.
> I would go into folder options to make the association but the file
> extension is never the same, so that would be useless.
> Is there somewhere I need to go or something I can change so that I get
> prompted to choose which program to use to open these attachments?
>
> Jason

 

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It doesn't give me that option in XP, I used to be able to do that on ME. I
will double click on the attachment and I am asked to open or save it. I
choose to open it, and exxpect to be prompted with choosing the program to
use to open the file. Instead I get an error message

"Kathea Banshou" wrote:

> shift-right click then select "Open With" and browse to the program you want
> to open the file. If you want the same program to always open that file,
> there is a checkbox you can click.
>
> "JasonC" wrote:
>
> > I am using outlook express on a Windows XP machine. My problem is that on
> > unknown attachments I am not being prompted to choose which program I want to
> > use to open the file.
> > I would go into folder options to make the association but the file
> > extension is never the same, so that would be useless.
> > Is there somewhere I need to go or something I can change so that I get
> > prompted to choose which program to use to open these attachments?
> >
> > Jason