why can I not open photos sent to my hotmail account they download but can view them at full size

beverley Dawe, September 2010

You can download the images just fine, so it's not a MSN problem.

Check that you actualy save them with the correct extention. Maybe you save them as .dat, .bin or with some other non-image extention.

I recommend that you set windows explorer to always display the extention of ALL files. The very idea of hiding the extentions was a very bad idea from the beggining.

Then, it's only a mather of chosing the right media viewer.

I normaly use IrfanView. A great and free media viewer. It launch faster and is more polyvalent that the windows offerings: fax viewer used to display images.
When it opens a file, it checks it's header instead of relying only on the extention to know how to display it.

One of it's feature is to correct the extention of files saved with the incorrect extention, like a JPG image saved as a .DAT file. Whenever it loads a file with the wrong extention, it asks you if you want it to correct the extention.
You can get it at: http://www.irfanview.com/

Electro, May 2011

not sure what you mean at the end of your question, but if their to big in mb they wont sent, their over the limit in mb , if their opening in full size, they were not opened in a photo program, at the other end first, so they will go in full size,

n, March 2011