Please Help

[Pete & Jean]

Am not very technical when it comes to computers. Am running Win XP. When
emailing pictures to some friends from my documents/my pictures they can't
open. They are in lnk format. Is there something I can tell them to do to
open or will they have to live with no pictures? Any help would be
appreciated. If you can help would you please email to ***@kingston.net

[Peter Boulding]

[posted and e-mailed]

Post by Pete & Jean
Am not very technical when it comes to computers.

Well, in one sense no, since you've sent your query to a newsgroup intended
only for those who create online help systems for Windows programs. But in
another perhaps yes; not many naive Windows users have the gumption to work
out how to post to usenet (newsgroups) at all. :)

Post by Pete & Jean
Am running Win XP. When
emailing pictures to some friends from my documents/my pictures they can't
open. They are in lnk format. Is there something I can tell them to do to
open or will they have to live with no pictures?

Well, no, because you haven't sent the pictures - just pointers to them,
such as "C:\My Pictures\Granny3.jpg", which isn't very helpful since the
recipient doesn't have access to your hard drive.

Post by Pete & Jean
Any help would be

I assume you're using Outlook Express (the Microsoft e-mail program supplied
with Windows XP). Try sending the images as attachments in a new e-mail:
from the New Message window's Insert menu, choose 'File Attachment'. *Don't*
choose 'hyperlink', and don't try to send more than about a megabyte's worth
of images in one e-mail.

For more and better advice, try a suitable newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

[Peter Boulding]

[posted and e-mailed]

Post by Pete & Jean
Am not very technical when it comes to computers.

Well, in one sense no, since you've sent your query to a newsgroup intended
only for those who create online help systems for Windows programs. But in
another perhaps yes; not many naive Windows users have the gumption to work
out how to post to usenet (newsgroups) at all. :)

Post by Pete & Jean
Am running Win XP. When
emailing pictures to some friends from my documents/my pictures they can't
open. They are in lnk format. Is there something I can tell them to do to
open or will they have to live with no pictures?

Well, no, because you haven't sent the pictures - just pointers to them,
such as "C:\My Pictures\Granny3.jpg", which isn't very helpful since the
recipient doesn't have access to your hard drive.

Post by Pete & Jean
Any help would be

I assume you're using Outlook Express (the Microsoft e-mail program supplied
with Windows XP). Try sending the images as attachments in a new e-mail:
from the New Message window's Insert menu, choose 'File Attachment'. *Don't*
choose 'hyperlink', and don't try to send more than about a megabyte's worth
of images in one e-mail.

For more and better advice, try a suitable newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general