cannot attach pictures to my hotmail

Anonymous
2009-06-02T00:50:19+00:00

I cant send compresse dpictures through Hotmail anymore: I just bought a brand new Dell with Windows Vista & IE 8. In Hotmail, when I click on "Attach" I no longer get a choice of "FILE or PHOTO", but it opens "My DOcuments" folder directly. When I checked  "Tools - Manage Add-Ons", I don't have the "Photo Upload " tool.

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Anonymous
2009-06-02T07:49:23+00:00

Hello abkara,

Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Windows Vista Community site.

Try following the step in this article:

Attaching pictures to a Microsoft Hotmail e-mail

To attach pictures in Hotmail, follow the below steps.

  1. Open your Hotmail account.
  2. Click the New Message link.
  3. Click the Attach and then File link.
  4. Click the Browse button and browse to the image you wish to attach. Keep in mind that you cannot select multiple files at once. However, you can individually add each of the images or attachments you wish to add.
  5. Click Ok or OK and Attach Another if you wish to do more than one image.

If attached successfully, you should see a link with the attachment names in your e-mail. Once you're ready to send the message, click the Send button.

Viewing pictures in a Microsoft Hotmail e-mail

Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.

To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and click the view or download link to view the image. Also, for many commonly known images, it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it

This should resolve your problem.

Let us know if these steps resolve your problem.  I hope the information is useful.

Regards,

Anthony

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-07-10T01:00:05+00:00

    hey abkara,

    by any chance did you have luck with finding out how to attach photos? Im having the same problem...

    thanks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-06-03T23:53:30+00:00

    Thanks. What you've shown in your example is exactly how it worked before( using IE6+XP). Now (IE8 +Vista) when I click on the "Attach" button in Hotmail, it directy opens up my documents folder withou the option to pick Files or Photos. When I select a picture, it uploads the entire image file without compressing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-06-03T20:17:48+00:00

    Hotmail...AKA Live Mail, compresses the pictures automatically....see my example at the link below

    http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6931/test1y.jpg

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-06-03T19:00:25+00:00

    Thanks. I should have been more specific about my question.

    I know how to attach images to Hotmail as a file. The problem is the images aren't compressed when you do this and they occupy a lot of space. When I had the "PHOTO UPLOAD' tool for Hotmail (in previous versions of IE + Windows XP), I could attach images as compressed picture files. However Hotmail on my new Vista computer + IE 8 does not have the "PHOTO UPLOAD' tool. How can I send compressed picture files in Hotmail? Thanks.

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