It minimizes it to the Taskbar when you click on the attachment? Then do
this.

Right click on the minimized message on the Taskbar and select Move. Now use
the arrow keys to get it in the screen. Close all other windows except this
one and use the cursor to drag the message to full screen size. File | Exit,
and Windows will remember the size when you open it again.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CJP338" wrote in message
...
This I've done, but it doesn't open the attachment, just minimises the
mail
message instead, and nothing else happens...

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Your first post said emf files, hence my suggesting a program.

Save an .eml attachment to your HDD. Right click on it and Open With |
Choose Program. Find and choose a program that works, Outlook Express,
and
then check the box: Always use this program to open this kind of file.
This
should enable you to open these attachments in the future.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CJP338" wrote in message
...
The file isn't there, so I have nothing to associate with .eml files...

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

msimn.exe is not in i386.
msimn.ex_ is in i386.
You can't associate .eml files to msimn.ex_ .

msimn.exe is in C:\Program Files\Outlook Express.
It is a system file, so it is probably hidden.

Save an .eml file to your hard drive.
Right click on the .eml file, Open With, select Outlook Express or
Browse
to
C:\Program Files\Outlook Express and select msimn.exe.
Check 'Always use this program'.
--
Ronald Sommer

"CJP338" wrote in message
...
The .exe file is not in the OE folder but it is running in Task
Manager...
I
found it under a folder called i386. I've associated the file with
this,
but
when I try to open the .eml file now, it closes the original mail it
is
attached to and nothing else happens...

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\. There is no msimn in the right
hand
pane?
msimn.exe /is/ Outlook Express.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Processes tab. You don't have msimn.exe listed
when
OE
is
running?

I may be wrong since I have never had an .emf file to open, but
from
what
I
see in searching, you need one of these programs, just as you need
Power
Point Viewer to open a .pps attachment.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CJP338" wrote in message
news I need the missing msimx.exe file? So it will open the attachment
with
Outlook Express...

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Do you have one of the programs for Windows listed here?
http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/emf

If you do:

Save the attachment to your HDD. Right click on it and Open With
|
Choose
Program. Find and choose a program that works and then check the
box:
Always
use this program to open this kind of file. This should enable
you
to
open
these attachments in the future.

If you don't have a program listed, here is the site for
IrfanView.

Download IrfanView at:
www.irfanview.com
or:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CJP338" wrote in message
...
I have received emails with .emf attachments. I understand
that I
need
to
associate this file extension with msimx.exe, but this file is
missing
from
my Outlook Express folder. How do I install this missing .exe
file?