But first a test. Save the attachment to your desktop and see if it opens.
The result will guide the next advice.
Bob
I an unable to open any attachments in my outlook express. It was working ok two weeks ago now i am have trouble trying to open any attachments . When i try to open one it says that this file does not have a program associated with it for preforming this action

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