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11 years ago

Has anyone found a solution to the slide show issue in Windows Live Mail? When I receive a message, the photo shows in the header, not in the body of the message. If I mark the option not to show the header, I don't get the picture at all. Either way, there is a box with a red X in the message body, but no picture.

WLM 2011

Thank you for any help. Please just let me know if I haven't provided enough information.

Bugsy

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owbist
11 years ago
If you are running Windows 7 try this.

Click Start - Control panel - Programs - Programs and Features

Scroll down and highlight Windows Live Essentials, return to the top of the page and click Uninstall/Change and a new window pops up, click the repair button. This covers Live Mail.

Any use?
bugsybanks
Original Author
11 years ago
I did the repair, it said it was completed successfully, but, sadly, it didn't change anything. You know, I'm wondering if it has to do with the way someone sends the original e-mail. Could it be that it's a setting on their end that I can't change on this end? Although, this was just a small photo that looked like it was a part of the little saying that came with it....not something that the sender would have inserted separately, if that makes sense. Again, the picture shows in the header and the body of the e-mail just has the empty box with the red X.

I know the "slide show" has been an issue with WLM, but I was hoping maybe I could fix this now.

Thank you for trying to help...and yes, I have Windows 7 and IE 9.
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owbist
11 years ago
OK so why not try what I did after reading your info?

I sent myself 10 photos to see what happens and was surprised to see the slideshow feature appear. You might indeed be right that the issue is the one email not the service itself.

They seem to use a jQuery style to advance the photos, it is not automatic. Works well actually.
bugsybanks
Original Author
11 years ago
I guess I just don't like WLM very much for several reasons...this being one of them. I've tried to switch over to Thunderbird, which I really like, but here's what happens:

When using T-Bird, the messages remain on the server and if I open WLM, it downloads the messages and they all disappear from my T-Bird Inbox. I can't find any optiion in the T-Bird set up to have it delete items from the server after downloading. I've tried to do some research and I think it has to do with the fact that T-Bird is set up as IMAP and not POP3. Is there a way to solve this problem so that I can use T-Bird instead of WLM?

And can you tell me what jQuery is? :-)
owbist
11 years ago
jQuery is a multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.[4] It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. It is currently developed by a team of developers led by Dave Methvin. Used by over 55% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today.

Quote above taken from here

Here is a jQuery slideshow on the BBC page.
bugsybanks
Original Author
11 years ago
Yikes! That hurt my brain. I have to say that the BBC web page is very impressive. When I tried to read through the explanation on Wikipedia, I realized how little I know about such things! Thank you for the information, though. I'm glad there are smart people out there to make use of these processes so that the rest of us can enjoy the results. :-)
genes
11 years ago
Try gmail

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