Guest CASEY Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 when i recieve an e-mail that is a video file, it wont open it.. it tells me to create an association in my folder options control panel...,That all sounds fine but it doesnt tell me how to do it! ive looked everywhere in my folder control panel and cant seem to work out how to do it, could someone PLEASE HELP!
Guest Alias Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 Re: please help!!!1 CASEY wrote: > when i recieve an e-mail that is a video file, it wont open it.. it tells me > to create an association in my folder options control panel...,That all > sounds fine but it doesnt tell me how to do it! ive looked everywhere in my > folder control panel and cant seem to work out how to do it, could someone > PLEASE HELP! Save the file to your hard drive before opening it. Alias
Guest Malke Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 Re: please help!!!1 CASEY wrote: > when i recieve an e-mail that is a video file, it wont open it.. it tells > me to create an association in my folder options control panel...,That all > sounds fine but it doesnt tell me how to do it! ive looked everywhere in > my folder control panel and cant seem to work out how to do it, could > someone PLEASE HELP! The message means that Windows doesn't know with what program to open the file. Make sure you save the file to your hard drive first instead of trying to open it from within your email program. If you want more help, post back with the file extension of the video file. The file extension is the three letters after the "dot"; ex. myvideo.wmv. In that example, the .wmv is the file extension and Windows would know to open the file with Windows Media Player. If you can't see the file extensions, go to Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab and uncheck "Hide file extensions...". Once you know the file extension, you can also look it up here: http://www.fileext.com Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
Guest Bruce Hagen Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 Re: please help!!!1 "CASEY" <CASEY @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:68EADE37-B20A-4BB5-AACF-73954ECB9AF5@microsoft.com... > when i recieve an e-mail that is a video file, it wont open it.. it tells > me > to create an association in my folder options control panel...,That all > sounds fine but it doesnt tell me how to do it! ive looked everywhere in > my > folder control panel and cant seem to work out how to do it, could someone > PLEASE HELP! What e-mail program? If Outlook Express: Save the attachment to your HDD. Right click on it and Open With | Choose Program. Find and choose a program that works, (Windows Media Player perhaps?), and then check the box: Always use this program to open this kind of file. This should enable you to open these attachments in the future. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 Re: please help!!!1 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:46:05 -0700, CASEY <CASEY @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > when i recieve an e-mail that is a video file, it wont open it.. it tells me > to create an association in my folder options control panel...,That all > sounds fine but it doesnt tell me how to do it! ive looked everywhere in my > folder control panel and cant seem to work out how to do it, could someone > PLEASE HELP! That message is a very poor and misleading one. Almost invariably, when you get that message, it simply means that you don't have installed an appropriate program to run that particular kind of file. The reason the misleading message is displayed is that when you install a program, the installation creates something called an "association" between the program and the extension (the last three characters of the file name, after the dot) or extensions that the program is designed to handle. So, for example, if you install Microsoft Excel, an association will be created between Excel and the extension .xls. The result is that if you try to open an .xls file, Windows will look at that association and know that it should use Excel to open it. If it can't find an association for .xls files, it's either because Excel or some compatible program hasn't been installed, or the association has somehow become lost or damaged. So it displays the message it does, assuming that the association is missing, although it's far more likely that you just don't have the right program installed. So, almost certainly, you simply don't have the right program installed to view the file you received. For more specific help, tell us what the extension of the file is. By the way, I'll add my customary warning about opening such attachments: Opening such attachments is very risky. You often see advice not to open attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's one of the most dangerous pieces of advice you see around, because it implies that it's safe to do the opposite--open attachments from friends and relatives. But many viruses spread by sending themselves to everyone in the infected party's address book, so attachments received from friends are perhaps the *most* risky to open. Even if the attachment legitimately comes from a friend, it can contain a virus. I'm not suggesting that a friend is likely to send you a virus on purpose, but if the friend is infected without realizing it, any attachment he sends you is likely to also be infected. Personally I never open attachments at all, except from a *very* few trusted sources, and then only when I'm expecting them. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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