Re: file extensions not showing

floffy, ye awful walleyed slave, it offends me to the soul to hear a
robustious periwig pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags,
ye mewled:

> nutzel;6371 Wrote:
>> I've been trying to help a friend of mine with a problem she is
>> having with
>> OE 6
>>
>> She's been having trouble with the opening of some *.pps attachments
>> which
>> have been a problem for her. I went to her house and showed her how I
>> solved
>> the same problem which I had awhile back. Here's how I did it.
>>
>>
>>
>> I right clicked the attachment and in the drop down list I saved it
>> to the
>> desktop.
>>
>> I then right clicked it while on the desktop and with the open with
>> command
>> opened it with the power point viewer.
>>
>> I also clicked the option to always this program with this kind of
>> file.
>>
>> This has worked fine. It even opens *.pps files while still in
>> Outlook Express.
>>
>> However, now when she gets an Windows Live she clicks it to open it,
>> it
>> says Power Point Viewer cannot open it. She never had this problem
>> before
>> with this type of program.
>>
>> I told her to put it on the desktop and to proceed from there as we
>> did with
>> the *.pps attachment but she couldn't do that because she couldn't
>> get the
>> Save As option as before.
>>
>> I then told her how to drag it to the desktop so that she could use
>> the Open
>> With command and open it with Windows Live Mail but it wouldn't drag.
>>
>> Oh! One other thing. None of the email attachments she gets show an
>> extension. Such as the *.eml in the attachment in Windows Live That
>> didn't
>> show up on her computer. I've got a hunch that it might have a
>> connection
>> with the indexing options in Control Panel. I really don't know what
>> that's
>> all about.
>>
>>
>> Can any of you shed any light on any of this?
>
>
> Could be Association of the Files are not fine
> if it's to much prob with the computer, reinstall windows
> it long but fix everything

lmfao