"Terry R." wrote:

> The date and time was Monday, June 29, 2009 11:26:01 AM, and on a whim,
> bruce pounded out on the keyboard:
>
> >
> > "bruce" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "Terry R." wrote:
> >>
> >>> The date and time was Monday, June 29, 2009 9:45:00 AM, and on a whim,
> >>> bruce pounded out on the keyboard:
> >>>
> >>>> after selecting one or more pictures to be emailed i'm asked if i want to
> >>>> resize them,
> >>>> i agree to this and it appears to perform this, but instead of opening my
> >>>> email (thunderbird), it just stays at the windows picture and fax viewer
> >>>> screen.
> >>>> any help would be appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>> Hi Bruce,
> >>>
> >>> Make sure TB checks to make itself the default (Tools, Options, under
> >>> System Defaults). Also check "Set Program Access & Defaults" in
> >>> Windows. MS has a way with resetting the mail client when updates are
> >>> installed.
> >>>
> >>> Report back,
> >>>
> >>> Terry R.
> >>> --
> >>> Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
> >>> Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
> >>> tb now checks to be sure it is the default, and windows still says my current
> >> client (tb) is default. but still no progress on the problem of opening my email.
>
> Did this work before?
>
> Read this:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resize_images
>
> You could try a System Restore if you remember when it worked last. Not
> the best fix, but it may help you monitor any further updates that may
> have hosed the feature.
>
> Terry R.
> --
> Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
> Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
>


did a system restore to back about two weeks, everything back to normal.
next day thunderbird needs to update to 2.0.0.22 and my problem returns. can't
block the update process, so i keep restoring.