Hi Guys,

I have been having the same problem for he last few days......

My Vista Basic has been up and running fine for ages. I have defender turned
off aslo as it has previously caused me conflicts. I cannot open attachments,
cannot save them and cannot download anything via windows mail and internet
explorer 7. I have solved the Explorer probblem with Firefox. But there is an
attachmenyt from an old email that I needto open and I cant...I dont leave
messages on server so a bit stuffed. As I say this is a recent problem that
happened over the last week.......and yes some updates have been installed.
I have also reset security settings as advised in a differetn forum, turned
off UAC as advised by a different forum. Am stuck now as to what to try next.
How do we get Microsoft to look at the problem. Any ideas anyone....?

"Asif" wrote:

> I have also experiencing same problem and after doing research i found that
> windows defender(builtain antivirus in vista) is causing problem. so turned
> off windows defender and then my problem is over.(also remove startup file
> from msconfig)type msconfig in run command and then go to startup tab and
> remove check from windows defender. i 100% sure it will work bcz it works in
> my pc.
>
> "Stead" wrote:
>
> > Hi, I've just installed vista and i have this wonderfully strange problem.
> >
> > outlook does not let me view or open attachments, get the error 'There was
> > an error saving one or more of the attachments"
> >
> > Also, internet explorer will not save or open downloads, it downloads the
> > file, when i click either open or run, then when it finishes the download
> > window just closes, file doesn't get saved, although when i click run, i get
> > a comfirmation asking if i want to allow this file to berun click run and
> > nothing happens, highly annoying! cannot download an alternative browser
> > either which is even more annoying!!!