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Unable To Download Attachment (hotmail) [since Windows Installer Update]

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by fjimenezusa, 2005/05/19.

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  1. 2005/05/19
    fjimenezusa

    fjimenezusa Inactive Thread Starter

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    Unable To Download Attachment (hotmail)

    I just signed up and since I couldn't find the answer to my problem, I decided to start this. Please feel free to move this to the right forum.

    Today, May 19, I tried to download attachments (different types) in Hotmail and every time I got this "Internet Explorer was not able to download...... ".

    Knowing that up until yesterday everything was OK. I went to the System Restore screen and noticed that something called "Software Distribution Services" had been installed at 3:00 a.m. (that's the setting for the Windows Updates ".

    Doing a little research I found that that update was in fact a new version of the Windows Installer 3.1, (v2) to be exact.

    Restoring the machines (at work) at an earlier date (like yesterday system checkpoint for example) solved the issue (obviously I had to change the way Windows Update is going to work in the future (manually).

    So my questions are:

    Have anyone experienced this ?(nothing came up thru the search...I' afraid the issue is too new)

    Any idea how to apply the update and not have this problem

    Thanks :cool:
     
  2. 2005/05/19
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    fjimenezusa - Welcome to the Board :)

    I would be surprised if the update to Windows Installer caused your problem, but as a Restore to a point prior to downloading the update resolves the issue the possibility remains.

    As you say too soon for anything re. this on the BBS, but as far as I am concerned I have the update downloaded on two m/c's and downloading is not a problem, nor is the download of attachments in Outlook Express affected. This may be Hotmail specific - I do not use Hotmail.

    Two suggestions - there must be Hotmail forums around - try one of those to see if others have the same problem and ....

    check back to the BBS regularly to see if anyone here has a problem.

    I have edited your thread title to make it more specific and moved it to the XP forum.
     

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  4. 2005/05/22
    jaylach

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    I don't use hotmail but I have seen this problem with Outlook Express 6 before. In that case it's always the security settings for Outlook Express. There is a setting to block any attachments that OE decides could be dangerous. To OE this pretty much turns out to be anything except straight text.

    I don't know this but it may be possible that hot mail takes settings from OE and you just need to change OE's security setting to not block attachments. I doubt that this is the case but ya might try.
     
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