Why can't I open attachments in Outlook?

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I get the same as some of you "There was an error opening one or more of the attatchments. Please check your free disk space and try again.

I found thay some users are unable to open JPG files as attachments in MS Outlook 2003 unless they are in the "local administrators" group or the "power users" group on MS Windows XP pro and Windows 2000 Pro.

I think there may be a way to change the security at the registry level to allow access so the limited user can open the JPG file by clicking on it from Outlook 2003. I'm thinking this is an operating system security permissions issue more than an Outlook application problem.

I still need to do some testing to see if this theory proves to be true but I have a long weekend ahead so it'll be next week before I'm able try. If anyone else want to try, feel free, or if you alreay know, let me know so I don't have to do any testing. I think I'll just need to figure out where the JPG entries are in the registry and start testing from there. Of course, I'll use a test PC and a test account that is not in the domain administrator's group.

Later,
Helpdesk

I also found an article that says there is a registry entry you can add for Outlook. You'll create this entry and tell it what type of attachments are safe for Outlook to open and seperate them by semicolons (;). I haven't tried any of this so ya'll keep me informed on your findings, if you get a chance.

Later,
Helpdesk

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I used to be able to open email attachments in O.E.
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