I am running Zone Alarm. However, I have been using this program from day
one, and am only having this issue for the past two weeks or so.

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> Point of order: none of the regular responders here has ever advocated
> disabling Windows Defender (or the Windows Firewall, for that matter).
>
> Which antivirus are you running? Some of them are not fully compatible
> with Windows Mail. For some of those, mere disabling is not sufficient.
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
>
>
> "anhlyss" <anhlyss@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:01392A58-4D27-401B-9BF4-4B1668F7B548@microsoft.com...
> > I, like many others based on previous posts, am unable to open or save
> > attachments in windows mail. I have also tried to forward the messages to my
> > work email, but the attachments seem to be "missing" from the forwarded
> > messages once I have tried to open them in Windows mail.
> >
> > As suggested in other threads, I have ensured that I have unchecked the "do
> > not allow attachments to be opened" box in options, disabled email scanning
> > in my anti-virus program, and have disabled Windows Defender. None of these
> > works.
> >
> > If I click on the attachment to open it, the little hourglass pointer comes
> > up, and then goes back to the arrow, but nothing else happens. If I try to
> > save the attachment, I get this message:
> >
> > "There was an error saving one or more of your attachments, please check
> > your free disk space and try again"
> >
> > I have more than enough free disk space.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
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