[Tech4me]

Hi all. I have some emails lately with attachments and can't seem to open them...this it whtas I got when trying to open..:

!http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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Any Ideas...Thanks.

[piyushsingh]

hi [~110135]

Just confirm that you having trouble opening the attachments or downloading them . Not much is clear from the snip. But i think its a matter related with file associations. Do you have powerpoint installed ? If no, install it from your office suite or get the free powerpoint viewer from the link below.

http://www.microsoft...&DisplayLang=en

[Tech4me]

[~71480] . I have full office 2007 with powerpoint and most everything........installed ...... Do you thing my friend sent me a old version of file that Vista won't recognize(maybe office2000).

[smax013]

Tech4me said:

[~71480] . I have full office 2007 with powerpoint and most everything........installed ...... Do you thing my friend sent me a old version of file that Vista won't recognize(maybe office2000).

Are you sure that they are PowerPoint files? Are you sure that your friend intended to send you something? In otherwords, are you sure it is not some virus or trojan horse that maybe come from your friend's computer or someone else's computer but made to look like it came from your friend's computer? The implicit warning in my question is that you should NEVER open an attachment unless you are SURE you know what it is supposed to be and expected it. If I get something from a friend that I am not expecting, I will contact that friend to make sure that they intended to send something to me and ask what it is.

[piyushsingh]

older office files will open in office 2007. The problem is the other way round , when files created with office 2007 in new format ( .docx etc ) are opened in older suites
. Thats why office 2007 has options of saving in other formats too.

So you have office 2007 installed. First i would say , take smax warning seriously . Dont open the attachment if you are not sure about its contents. Scan it using multiple scanners.

If you are sure about opening it :

Does the .pps file show up as a powerpoint file or not ?

Try right clicking and open with ,go to power point and see if it works.

Try renamng the .pps file in DOS from filename.pps to filename.ppt and see if it works.

[Tech4me]

[~71480] . OK....First Yahoo sec...Scans it before lt let me download...I saved it....and scan it again nothing show up.

Then I try to open it with different programs, comes up with same message....Only Adobe came up with saying The file is damaged along the line when trying to forward as an attachment....?

Xmas...Yes I trust this guy.....(Problem is He forward these emails from some body else.) Most of the time from other friend that I know too..

[Tech4me]

Guys.......OHHHH...I got it .....Turned out that I have default opening program to IE and let IE pick the right program to open which is Power Point.
Another word...It won't let me pick..... for security reason.....? Or something that I did not know how to set up for...? ..or misssed....something else..?
Thanks.