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I am a complete novice, and just noted that Windows XP
Home on a Sony VAIO computer automatically saves every
image included in email messages in the "My Pictures"
folder, with alpha-numeric "names" assigned. Is there a
way to stop this, as I don't want most of the images.
Any simple help would be appreciated. Thank You.
 

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Not really sure how to stop it myself, but you can always
delete them from My pictures...

>-----Original Message-----
>I am a complete novice, and just noted that Windows XP
>Home on a Sony VAIO computer automatically saves every
>image included in email messages in the "My Pictures"
>folder, with alpha-numeric "names" assigned. Is there a
>way to stop this, as I don't want most of the images.
>Any simple help would be appreciated. Thank You.
>.
>
 
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Don wrote:
> I am a complete novice, and just noted that Windows XP
> Home on a Sony VAIO computer automatically saves every
> image included in email messages in the "My Pictures"
> folder, with alpha-numeric "names" assigned. Is there a
> way to stop this, as I don't want most of the images.
> Any simple help would be appreciated. Thank You.

Not unless you ask it to save them, it doesn't.

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Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
 
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>-----Original Message-----
>Don wrote:
>> I am a complete novice, and just noted that Windows XP
>> Home on a Sony VAIO computer automatically saves every
>> image included in email messages in the "My Pictures"
>> folder, with alpha-numeric "names" assigned. Is there
a
>> way to stop this, as I don't want most of the images.
>> Any simple help would be appreciated. Thank You.
>
>Not unless you ask it to save them, it doesn't.
>
>--
>Kath Adams
>MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
>.
>Thank You for your response; however, I do nothing
except read the e-mail messages. Subsequently, I find
any images that were contained are in "My Pictures" but I
did not ask it to do anything. Perhaps it has something
to do with the way Windows was set up by the
manufacturer? The PC is a Sony VAIO, and it came with
absolutely no documentation of anything, no CD's, and not
even a description of the pre-loaded software. Since
your response indicates your are an MVP, I guess it just
means I am wrong and this isn't happening?
 
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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Don wrote:
>>> I am a complete novice, and just noted that Windows XP
>>> Home on a Sony VAIO computer automatically saves every
>>> image included in email messages in the "My Pictures"
>>> folder, with alpha-numeric "names" assigned. Is there a
>>> way to stop this, as I don't want most of the images.
>>> Any simple help would be appreciated. Thank You.
>>
>> Not unless you ask it to save them, it doesn't.
>>
>> --
>> Kath Adams
>> MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
>> .
>> Thank You for your response; however, I do nothing
> except read the e-mail messages. Subsequently, I find
> any images that were contained are in "My Pictures" but I
> did not ask it to do anything. Perhaps it has something
> to do with the way Windows was set up by the
> manufacturer? The PC is a Sony VAIO, and it came with
> absolutely no documentation of anything, no CD's, and not
> even a description of the pre-loaded software. Since
> your response indicates your are an MVP, I guess it just
> means I am wrong and this isn't happening?

Others will correct me if I am wrong, but this is not "normal" behaviour
of OE. (Indeed some people would actually like to have this feature
included.) And I in no way meant to imply that because I have been lucky
enough to have been awarded MVP status, I must be right all of the time.
I'll wait until someone comes up with more suggestions. But I can only
suggest that you contact the manufacturer and ask what they may have
installed to do this automatically?
--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)