The date and time was Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:51:01 PM, and on a
whim, bruce pounded out on the keyboard:

>
> "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.
>>>>> 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.
>>
>
>
> 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.

In TB, Tools, Options, Advanced, Update. Uncheck the options.

I use the Powertoy Image Resizer. You may want to Google and see if it
works for you.


Terry R.
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