PowerPoint viewer not associated with email attachments?

Hi
I have PowerPoint viewer and slidshow download and when I get a email from some friends with the PPS. File type. PowerPoint will not open them.
Says "This file does not have a program associated....Create a association in folder options.
I have checked this and it has PowerPoint associated for these files, But still will not open them, Can anyone tell me what may be wrong?
Thanks
Geri

 

Your friend may have created the presentation in a version of powerpoint not properly supported by your version of PPviewer. Most people have PPViewer 97 and this is ok most of the time, but you may have more luck with the newest powerpoint viewer, PPViewer 2003. Heres a link to download it. It may not hurt to install it anyway to "fix" the file association problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

 

Hi Dez
That is what I have PP 2003.

While I was trying to figure out whats wrong, I found that for some reason I need to click on PP first and then click on the email file.
Do you know if there is way that clicking on the file will start PP automatically? I know it did that on my old computer.
Thanks
Geri