I'm glad to see you found the answer, but I wouldn't blame MS for this. Beta
means it is in testing mode and you use it at your own risk.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dr Weekes-Money" wrote in message
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Found the answer to all this. It was a problem with Windows Defender Beta.
The Registry hack is he
http://www.castlecops.com/print-1-148221.html
Although personally, I think it is disgraceful that Microsoft leaves us
poor
mortal users in a position where we have to go blundering around in the
registry. But problem solved anyhow. Thanks to all for your help.

"Dr Weekes-Money" wrote:



"-Alias-" wrote:

Dr Weekes-Money wrote:

"-Alias-" wrote:

Dr Weekes-Money wrote:
"-Alias-" wrote:

Dr Weekes-Money wrote:
My Security zone is set to internet zone. "Do not allow
attachments to be
saved...etc" is not checked.
And "Block images ..."?

Change your setting to Restricted Zone, although that has nothing
to do
with your problem.

Alias
Block images is not checked either.
I have now changed my setting to restricted zone, but this hasn't
helped.
I'm pretty sure that this is a new "feature" that Microsoft has
added,
because I was able to read the same attachments earlier this
morning.
Are you using Hotmail with OE? I have all the updates and am not
experiencing this problem on three computers so I don't think it's
the
updates.

Alias

Not using Hotmail, I have accounts with Yahoo and Force9.net.
However, these
messages have already been downloaded to OE6, and I have been able to
open
the attachments previously.

Last ditch suggestion: tick the Do not allow attachments ..." and
"Block
images ..." and then close OE. Open it again. Untick them. Close it
again. Open it and see if there's any joy. Also, try right clicking on
Internet Explorer/Properties and click on the Delete Files button and
tick Delete all off line content, click OK. If neither works, perhaps
your identity is corrupt. Create a new identity, import everything from
the old one and, if it works properly, delete the old identity.

Alias

Tried all the ticking and unticking with no joy. Not sure about the
creating
a new identity bit. My wife has a separate account on the same machine,
and
she is experiencing exactly the same problems with her email. Also, I
have
tried to download a few things from the internet, and although they
appear to
be saving, when the download completes, they aren't there. (I thought I'd
try
IE7 to see if it made a difference.)
I have removed Windows XP Service pack 2, and am presently able to read
attachments and download files. This is the same state that it was in
before
I last applied SP2 and everything went pear-shaped.