Bruce and Mike,
Thanks for the input. I apologize for being slow to respond.
I am running Xp Pro. I have followed all of the steps suggested here. I
have decided that maye this thing can't be opened or, I have not the
knowl;edge required to do it. I will forward it to either of you if you want
to play with it. It is clean per Norton. will get the
word to me. The file as I have it is 3 MB. Thanks for all of your assistance.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Are you running XP/SP2? Did you see this?

There is a conflict with PPS and XP/SP2. See this link for a fix:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ppsopen.htm

If you changed it from email to PPS, that won't work. This should have
helped.

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Van R" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Bruce
I do have Power Point 2003 on my system, but it does not recognize the
file
apparently. I tried changing the extension from ".email" to ".pps" wth
the
same results. It may be might eneptness. Do I need to download and
install
the Power Point viewer anyway? I did receive a file once before, a couple
of
years ago, that I managed to open, but this one is not cooperating. It is
not really that important, just kind of like a bur under my blanket.
Van

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="z_ppt_Pamukkale_mhr.pps"

This is a PPS attachment that needs PowerPoint Viewer. If you are using
XP/SP2:

There is a conflict with PPS and XP/SP2. See this link for a fix:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ppsopen.htm

If you never had a PowerPoint Viewer:

PowerPoint Viewer 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~


"Van R" wrote in message
...
I receive email from a friend who is using MSN.com for an ISP
occassionally.
Usually it has an attachment and I have yet to figure out how to open
this
attachment. I receive a lot of messages w/attachments from others and
have
no problem opening them. I contacted my friend about the emails he
sends
and
my inability to open them and was told I was the only one complaining
about
them. I received one yesterday with the ".email" extension and, once
again,
could not open it. It immediately attempted to open in Notepad with
out
asking me. When I tried several other programs to open it, I was
unsuccessful as well. This is an example of what I see:

Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="z_ppt_Pamukkale_mhr.pps"

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAArwwAAAAAAAAA
EAAA/v///wAAAAD+////AAAAAJUMAACWDAAAlwwAAJgMAACZDAAAmgwAAJsMAACcDAAAnQ wAAJ4M
AACfDAAAoAwAAKEMAACiDAAAowwAAKQMAAClDAAApgwAAKcMAA CoDAAAqQwAAKoMAACrDAAArAwA
AK0MAACuDAAA////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////

What am I doing wrong? How do I correct it?

Thanks!