I'm on an XPP SP2 box. I have no problem opening .pngs stored in My Pics or
anywhere else on my HD, and I have Paint or any other image program
associated with it, and any of them work fine. Someone posted a .png on one
of these groups, and when I try to open it, I get a box telling me to
associate the proper program with it using the folder dialogue box. The
proper program is associated with .png, so I don't understand what would be
the difference if it is a .png in an OE newsgroup message or what else I can
do since the .pngs in My Pics open fine.

Tia for any help.

Chad Harris

"Chad Harris" ...
I'm on an XPP SP2 box. I have no problem opening .pngs stored in My Pics
or anywhere else on my HD, and I have Paint or any other image program
associated with it, and any of them work fine. Someone posted a .png on
one of these groups, and when I try to open it, I get a box telling me to
associate the proper program with it using the folder dialogue box. The
proper program is associated with .png, so I don't understand what would
be the difference if it is a .png in an OE newsgroup message or what else
I can do since the .pngs in My Pics open fine.

Tia for any help.

Chad Harris

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Chad Harris
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"Chad Harris"
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I'm on an XPP SP2 box. I have no problem opening .pngs stored in My Pics
or anywhere else on my HD, and I have Paint or any other image program
associated with it, and any of them work fine. Someone posted a .png on
one of these groups, and when I try to open it, I get a box telling me to
associate the proper program with it using the folder dialogue box. The
proper program is associated with .png, so I don't understand what would
be the difference if it is a .png in an OE newsgroup message or what else
I can do since the .pngs in My Pics open fine.

Tia for any help.

Chad Harris

Suspect malware!! - do you have viewing of extensions enabled? - if not, and
you can see the .png extension for this file, then it's almost certainly a
Trojan.
If you do have viewing of extensions enabled, then it may be that the file
is either mis-named, or corrupted. Check that the filename doesn't have a
space character after the .png, first - then rename the file completely
(together with the extension) and see if that helps


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Chad Harris" wrote in message
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I'm on an XPP SP2 box. I have no problem opening .pngs stored in My Pics
or anywhere else on my HD, and I have Paint or any other image program
associated with it, and any of them work fine. Someone posted a .png on
one of these groups, and when I try to open it, I get a box telling me to
associate the proper program with it using the folder dialogue box. The
proper program is associated with .png, so I don't understand what would
be the difference if it is a .png in an OE newsgroup message or what else
I can do since the .pngs in My Pics open fine.

Tia for any help.

Chad Harris

I think it may be corrupted, but those were all good ideas, including the
renaming.

Thanks much Noel,

Chad

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Suspect malware!! - do you have viewing of extensions enabled? - if not,
and you can see the .png extension for this file, then it's almost
certainly a Trojan.
If you do have viewing of extensions enabled, then it may be that the
file is either mis-named, or corrupted. Check that the filename doesn't
have a space character after the .png, first - then rename the file
completely (together with the extension) and see if that helps


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Chad Harris" wrote in message
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I'm on an XPP SP2 box. I have no problem opening .pngs stored in My Pics
or anywhere else on my HD, and I have Paint or any other image program
associated with it, and any of them work fine. Someone posted a .png on
one of these groups, and when I try to open it, I get a box telling me to
associate the proper program with it using the folder dialogue box. The
proper program is associated with .png, so I don't understand what would
be the difference if it is a .png in an OE newsgroup message or what else
I can do since the .pngs in My Pics open fine.

Tia for any help.

Chad Harris

With SP2, when you open an attachment within OE, it uses the OPEN action
of the Windows File Associations, Some applications don't create an
OPEN action. They might have an action such as SHOW or DISPLAY or EDIT
and set that as the default which is what gets used when you double
click a file from the Windows File Explorer.

What you can do is create an OPEN action for PNG files and copy the
settings from whatever is the default action.

See the Identifying Attachment File Types and Setting File Associations
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...e.htm#identify


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Chad Harris" wrote in message
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I'm on an XPP SP2 box. I have no problem opening .pngs stored in My
Pics or anywhere else on my HD, and I have Paint or any other image
program associated with it, and any of them work fine. Someone posted
a .png on one of these groups, and when I try to open it, I get a box
telling me to associate the proper program with it using the folder
dialogue box. The proper program is associated with .png, so I don't
understand what would be the difference if it is a .png in an OE
newsgroup message or what else I can do since the .pngs in My Pics
open fine.

Tia for any help.

Chad Harris