Vista - sending photos by e-mail and reduce photo size

Just purchased a new Dell 6400 and now want to send my photos to others. Have
clicked on attchment in e-mail, clicked on my docs---into photos--clicked on
the chosen photo to e-mail---e-mail page comes up with attachment BUT also in
text part of e-mail page a GIANT photo which takes an age to send. Any tips
on just to include attachment only, without this large additional photo.
Worked well on my old system---but Vista seems to churn up one or two problems

"mikeygit" <mikeygit@xxxxxx> wrote in message
newsA9EDC1D-FD2A-415A-9A83-0096284B8702@xxxxxxWindows Mail displays many types of attachments in the body of the message
if
it knows how. You may look for a way to reduce the size of the picture file
before
you send it instead; that will make the message go faster even if only one
copy
actually goes out, but will remove a little of the detail in the picture.
After reducing
the file size and storing it in a new file, close all the programs that
access the picture
before attaching it, since Windows Mail has problems adding attachments that
are
open in some other program.

"robertmiles@xxxxxx" wrote: