Missing thumbnails in saved emails

When I saved my emails from Outlook Express 6 into a folder in My Documents it used to save them with a thumbnail which showed any images in the email. This made searching emails easy. I have now got a Media Centre Computer and the e-mails are saved with an envelope thumbnail so every email looks exactly the same. Am I missing a setting or is this a feature that has been removed?

 

Unless something has changed between sp1 and sp3 this is what I am aware of:

As of XP Update Service Pack SP1
Cannot View Web Content Files in Thumbnails View

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327833

For stability and performance reasons, Windows XP SP1 makes Thumbnails view unavailable for the following file types:

a.. HTML documents (.htm and .html files)

b.. XML documents (.xml files)

c.. Internet e-mail messages (.eml files)

d.. Internet news messages (.nws files)

So the Thumbnail View for .eml files is no longer supported after SP1.

 

Thanks SO much for your help. How sad though, it was such a useful feature!

 

Hi again Tessa,

Thanks for the update and your most welcome. I am sorry however that you've lost a feature you enjoyed.