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Yahoo won't let me open email attachments anymore!?

I've had yahoo for several years, and never had any problems opening attachments. Lately for some reason, it won't let me open any email attachments. I'll click to open or save to the computer - (at this point in the past, I used to get a dialog box with a progress meter to show you how the download is progressing... that doesn't show up anymore either) - it appears to download the file, then I get an error message shortly thereafter stating that the file cannot be opened. So, I transfer the email to my hotmail account, and it opens fine with no problems. Any thoughts?

Update:

I checked the add-on section, and everything is already enabled... Any other thoughts? Thanks for the suggestion though!!

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  • Gary
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I had that problem awhile back. I cleared the cache & rebooted & everything was fine. To clear the cache in IE7 click Tools > Internet Options, on the General tab under Browsing History click delete, in the next window underTemporary Internet Files click Delete, click OK, OK your way out, then restart computer

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