I have no trouble opening most attachments but I am not able to open pictures sent to me in bmp format.I'm running Win XP home.I find if pictures are jpeg they open automatically ,With mpg I am lost.Can anyone help? Thank you.

81 Newbee

what message do you get when you try to open bmp files??? the paint program that comes with xp should be able to open bmp's

When I open the attachment a window opens titled"Windows Picture and Fax Viewer".In the center of that window is "No Preview Available" Does this imfo help?
I was researching car prices about the same time .That's the best I can guess why I put mpg in the last line.I turned 82 on May 31st so I guess I can get away with claiming:" A senior moment"

81 Newbee

Are you able to save them to the hard drive and then open them?

I have CorelPrint House on my machine.I opened it today and found that the bmp attachments were there for me to view or alter."Live and learn" Thanks to all of you for trying to help.I LOVE PC911!

81 Newbee

"With mpg I am lost.Can anyone help? Thank you."


mpg,isn't that miles per gallon

LilJoe

Depending on where you're traveling,I suppose bad mpg(miles per gallon),could leave you "lost".

Attachment #1, (gif file)

Save your attachment to the desktop or somewhere like My Documents. Open up Microsoft Paint.

BMP files will open fine with Paint.

mpg is the extension for an MPEG file (Motion Pictures Experts Group).

It's a compressed motion video clip.

Shelly

Thanks Shelly,That sounds a hell of a lot better than my excuse.


After looking at all the slogans and wise quotes at the bottom of the remarks here, I've been trying to think of one I could use.Here is one I found on the wall over the urinal in a bar in Boulder,Colorado in 1981.
GRAVITY EXISTS BECAUSE THE EARTH SUCKS
I,m too much of an optomist to use it.But then it makes about as much sense as some of the global warming model

81 Newbee

Need a quote? I have lots of them. How about

"There is a need for no more than five computers in the world"
-Thomas Watson CEO of IBM in 1940's

Or

"Everything that can be invented, has been invented"
-Charles Buel Commissioner, US Patent Office 1896

Shelly