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Unable to see e-mail attachments

:acould someone please help me? A friend has sent me e-mails with attachments for a couple of years and i have no trouble with them until now.
The message comes up: Set association control panel. What should i do?
I have vista on my computer

many thanks :a

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  • fwor
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    What file extension does the file have (the ~usually~ three characters after the dot in the filename)?

    It sounds like you need to set an association between that and the application that it's opened with.
  • Thanks for your reply, unfortunately the messages has been delated and I cannot retrieve them. Will give you the info when it happens again, which I am sure won't be long.
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