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					Originally Posted by Raven
					
				 
				i have windows 2000 on my old PC   
on my new PC i have windows XP
 
a friend sends me an attachment 
which is an email he wanted to forward 
with the file extension .eml  which opens 
perfectly on the w2k pc   but isnt even recognized 
by the win xp PC even though i tried using outlook express 
to view it on both...   
 
even though both are windows NT (basically) operating systems. 
i dont get it...  i went into folder options on the xp box and added  
the file extension to the list  .... with no luck.      i'm puzzled.  
			
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 I may just be "fishing" here, but that .eml extension 
is an MS-Outlook or MS-Outlook Express extension.  So if you have Outlook/Express on the W2k PC but not the XP PC its not going to open on XP.  You'll need to install Outlook or Outlook Express.