Various Topics on Windows XP

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I would be gratelful if someone could help me as my e-
mail attachments are greyed out. How could I fix this

..flem..

"Liam" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I would be gratelful if someone could help me as my e-
> mail attachments are greyed out. How could I fix this

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, c****
http://communities.microsoft.com/new...ternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then c**** the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

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Hi Liam

This has two fixes
1 A service pack upgrade to MSoffice will cause this in that case there is a
program that will let you manually set the security. You will have to search
with google or etc

2 In tools - options - security uncheck the box "Do not allow........"

Tony

"Liam" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I would be gratelful if someone could help me as my e-
> mail attachments are greyed out. How could I fix this

..n ..ak.. ..P

In news:1068201c3f327$20601df0$a401280a@phx.gbl,
Liam <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> I would be gratelful if someone could help me as my e-
> mail attachments are greyed out. How could I fix this


Starting with SP1, Outlook Express does this by default, for any
file type which *can* contain a virus. It's not a virus checker,
doesn't actually check the attachments, and this doesn't mean
that there actually is a virus there.

Such attachments *are* 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.

Personally I never open executable attachments at all, except
from a *very* few trusted sources, and then only when I'm
expecting them. But if you want to remove this safeguard, it's
easy to do so: go to Tools | Options, and on the security tab,
uncheck "Do not allow attachments..."


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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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