I've had the same thing. The win.dat attachments seem to be generated by Outlook when sending other attachments eg: spreadsheets, docs, whatever. When received by non-Outlook programs they can show up as "dat" files. (don't you just love MS?) If the sender uses plain text format or...
A combination of Dashey and Jesuspower's suggestions made a tremendous difference and the gui is fine with me. XP stuff is just a little "too cute".
As per my other post, I solved the problem by unchecking the Exchange client setting in options>other>advanced options>add-in manager. Instant speed on startup.
I'm not sure whether this is an Outlook problem or an XP problem, but Outlook takes *forever* to load on my laptop running WinXP Pro. The laptop is an IBM T-30 fully populated with memory. I tried and uninstall/reinstall with no improvement. Outlook loads lightening fast on my other slower...
If you find a solution, I'd love to hear it. I have an IBM T30 Thinkpad which is quick hardware, yet I sit and wait for what seems like an eternity for menus to pop-up or down. I run Win2000 Pro on all other machines and never seem to have this problem. Is this inherrent in XP Pro? The bells...
I've experienced a similar problem except from the recipient end. People have tried to send spread sheet attachments from inside Outlook and also AutoCad attachments and all I get are win.dat attachments. These can be "seen" by going to my inbox via webmail, but they don't display in...
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