Vista - Attachments in message body?

Why are attachments that I send and receive opening in the message body of
emails. When I receive an email with several photo's or other material as
attachments they are opening in the message body of the email and they are
very large. I have had my computer lock up during the receiving and when I
try to open one of the attachments. Computer will not free up. I have to shut
down the computer with the off button and this is not good. I have talked to
friends that I have sent photo's to and sent them to myself just to see and
they are very disgusted with this. Can't seem to find any settings to stop
this.
I am running on an E Machine-Vista Home Premium with a 62 x 2 Processor
4400+: 15 in 1 Memory Card Reader: 250G HD: 1024MB DDR2

I believe most email clients including Windows Mail will show any
attached JPGs at the bottom of the text. I don't know of any way to
stop that. The sender would have to zip the photos before attaching.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Daniel" <Daniel@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B33BB3ED-5348-4182-9464-8E213A68D94D@xxxxxx

As in Outlook Express before it, Windows Mail will display some graphic
attachments in a separate section underneath the message body as a
convenience to the user. If you enable the "Read all messages in plain
text" option, these attachments will not display.

PS: Ask your correspondents to drastically reduce the size of such graphic
files before attaching them, or put all of them in a ZIP file & attach that.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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Daniel wrote: