Why can’t I open email attachments in Outlook

Jyoti Raut December 11, 2012 0

Conclusion On Open Email Attachments - Email attachments will become larger than the actual size of the particular file when you send it on email, There are several reasons respossible for this. I will discribe some of the reasons here.

I am using outlook and thunderbird both email programs for managing my emails. On thunderbird I am using my yahoo mail account and On outlook I am using windows live hotmail account. All the things are going fine on both email program. But now i am having a bit problem on my outlook where I am using windows live hotmail emails. When ever I want to open any email attachment on my outlook I always get some error or sometime nothing will happen without any error message email attachments can’t be open on my outlook. Can you tell me how can I open my email attachments on my outlook?

Why can't I open email attachments in Outlook

Open Email Attachments

On the previous year it is very easy to update the settings of Microsoft products because by default in microsoft product there is less security. If you want security on microsoft product then either you need to manually configure the specific product or you need to switch to the professional or ultimate version of microsoft product. But now as IT sector become the biggest hub of world arena so microsoft also change the ways to provide the product.

Now from the previous time microsoft taking much importance on making secure the product by default. And this is the main reason because on outlook and outlook express now user can not open email attachments “By Default.

Outlook has various version and you also need to know that there is a wide difference between outlook and outlook express, Outlook is a utility which belongs to Microsoft office and it is a paid product microsoft Where as outlook express is the utility of internet explorer 6 which is free product to maange email accounts.

If you want to open email attachments at the same time when you receive an email so you need to manually configure the email setting where you can get the “Open attachments” option on you email program like outlook and outlook express.

Email attachments setting on Outlook express

Here are the email attachments setting with which you can configure your outlook express if you can’t be able to access email attachments with your email.

  • Goto the “Tools” menu.
  • And then select “Options” Tab.
  • Now in the options tab select “Security” tab.
  • Now “Uncheck” the check box where “Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus” wrote.

With this setting you can now easily access your email attachments at the time you receive emails.











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