Hi Dick.
I'm not sure what you mean here.
In OE, when you click on the Compose button to compose a new message, and you want to attach a document, file, etc, what happens when you click on the "Attach" button on the tool bar?
You should get a dialogue box called "Insert Attachment", which has a small display, usually defaulted to your My Documents folder, and My Documents is displayed in the "Look in:" section.
If the dialogue box defaults to some other folder, the name of the folder should be shown in the "Look in:" section. If you're not sure where on the C drive that folder is, click the down arrow there to see the full tree. However strangley on mine, when I click on the down arrow, the display changes to Desktop, and loses the My Documents contents.
If you are getting a number of odd files in displayed, what can you see when you open your My Documents folder from the desktop?
What you see displayed in the Insert Attachment dialogue box should only be what is stored in your My Documents folder.
Mark
Lately when I go to insert a file attachment into Outlook Express instead of one icon called say when.txt I get about 9 icons with the individual letters w-h-e- n . txt and maybe another one or two blanks-sometimes it also includes the document and settings letters with a separate icon for each and you end up with over 40 icons in the file attachment area of OE. This would appear to come from the C drive folder Documents and settings.
Clicking on any of these multiple icons for that one file attachment that it is supposed to be evokes the response - for instance if I click on the letter p
with these multiple icons I get "Windows can not find 'C\P' . Make sure you typed the name correctly,and then try again. To search for a file , click the Start button , and then click Search"
I use Windows XP Pro and have done a virus scan etc to eliminate any problems from nasties.
Forgot to mention if I am in safe mode or if I drag and drop the file onto the email it attaches normally as it should. It is only when I use the menu Insert/File attachment option.
Has anybody got any clues as to what is happening here?

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