Ask The Computer Lady » hotmail http://askthecomputerlady.com/questions If you have computer questions, this is the place for you Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:42:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Forwarding Pictures in Hotmail http://askthecomputerlady.com/questions/2011/06/forwarding-pictures-in-hotmail/ http://askthecomputerlady.com/questions/2011/06/forwarding-pictures-in-hotmail/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:18:39 +0000 Computer Lady http://askthecomputerlady.com/questions/?p=4030 Dear Computer Lady,

I have Windows XP and I use hotmail.

When I forward an e-mail the pictures I see will not be there when it arrives. Just blank spaces where the pictures would have been.

Do I need to install a program? Can you help me?

Thank You, Melinda

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Dear Melinda,

Since Hotmail is an online email service, it doesn’t really matter what operating system you are using, it works the same in Windows XP as it does in Vista or Windows 7.

I don’t really have a Hotmail account, so I created one and tried it out just for you! :

This is what I discovered:

1. There are no settings that I could find for forwarding pictures in an email message or leaving them out.
2. I forwarded an email with pictures to myself (I use Microsoft Outlook for my email) and although at first the pictures didn’t show, all I had to do was click a line at the top of the email message to display the pictures.
3. I checked the same forwarded message in my Gmail account, and the same thing occurred. There were no pictures until I clicked the link in a green bar at the top of the email that said: “Display Images Below”.

I hope this helps you with your problem. I suspect that you are forwarding the images, but the recipient is not clicking the link to display them.

If any readers who use Hotmail on a regular basis know more about this than I do, please leave a comment below this post.

Elizabeth

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When i right click on a file in my documents and choose send to then scroll down to mail recipient I get a message saying this.

“there is no email associated to perform the requested action,please install an email
program or,if one is already installed,create an association in the default programs control panel”.

Hope you can understand this. I use hotmail as my email.

Regards, Tommy

Dear Tommy,

I do understand your question, in fact, it is a question that I see quite often.

The problem that you have, is that hotmail is not an e-mail program, it is a web-based e-mail service.

In order for the, “Send to Mail recipient” command to work, you need to be using an email program that is installed on your computer. Such programs would include…

Outlook Express
Windows Mail
Windows Live Mail
Microsoft Outlook
Mozilla Thunderbird

There are a couple of other email programs as well, but these are the most common ones.

You would need to have an email address that works with these programs (hotmail does not) and then set it up in your email program. Then this option will work.

If changing to a different email provider is not an option for you, you will have to attach your file from the Hotmail page when you are composing a new message. Just click on the option to attach a file.

Elizabeth

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