Easier way of using "Send to" option in WML without skydrive?
My parents are like old dogs, they are hard to teach. It took me a long time to get them figured out on Windows XP. Just recently their old computer went south. I was able to salvage everything off the old hard drive but rather than to invest in old computer parts and keep Windows XP running, I went with a new computer route. However Windows Live Mail 2011 is giving me and my parents headaches.
Personally I don't like the SkyDrive feature. For some reason it never works on my Android tablet and some of my parent's family also had trouble getting pictures via SkyDrive. When I use my desktop computer to view the picture, the picture looks like someone smeared Vaseline all over it during resize. The quality didn't degrade like that when used with older email program and the resize option of the past.
Unfortunately it seems Microsoft saw fit to break what worked for more than 20 years and shove in a cloud type system with no easy option to opt out. So my parents are having a hard time using Windows Live Mail 2011.
What they do: they go through My Picture folder and select multiple pictures, then click send to email. They get the option to resize the pictures and then it's sent as attachment. However WLM does not allow photo sent as attachment like this anymore.
The solutions I found so far including making email first, then selecting insert but that does not offer enough resizing option or easy way to mass resize all at once, and selecting attach file does not offer any resize option. The other trick of making a dummy text file then selecting it along the picture worked but that's still extra step for my parents to do and I still haven't be able to "train" them to either make new dummy file for every new picture folder they created or copying over existing dummy file into every new picture folders.
Is there a new way found yet, or maybe with WLM 2012 (if it's released very soon) that allows me to completely turn off SkyDrive and let my parent use WLM the same was as older Microsoft email program? Failing that, can Microsoft send someone over to train my parents, at their expense?
probably not likely but it is frustrating when they break what worked, and the new feature is actually worse.
My parents are like old dogs, they are hard to teach. It took me a long time to get them figured out on Windows XP. Just recently their old computer went south. I was able to salvage everything off the old hard drive but rather than to invest in old computer parts and keep Windows XP running, I went with a new computer route. However Windows Live Mail 2011 is giving me and my parents headaches.
Personally I don't like the SkyDrive feature. For some reason it never works on my Android tablet and some of my parent's family also had trouble getting pictures via SkyDrive. When I use my desktop computer to view the picture, the picture looks like someone smeared Vaseline all over it during resize. The quality didn't degrade like that when used with older email program and the resize option of the past.
Unfortunately it seems Microsoft saw fit to break what worked for more than 20 years and shove in a cloud type system with no easy option to opt out. So my parents are having a hard time using Windows Live Mail 2011.
What they do: they go through My Picture folder and select multiple pictures, then click send to email. They get the option to resize the pictures and then it's sent as attachment. However WLM does not allow photo sent as attachment like this anymore.
The solutions I found so far including making email first, then selecting insert but that does not offer enough resizing option or easy way to mass resize all at once, and selecting attach file does not offer any resize option. The other trick of making a dummy text file then selecting it along the picture worked but that's still extra step for my parents to do and I still haven't be able to "train" them to either make new dummy file for every new picture folder they created or copying over existing dummy file into every new picture folders.
Is there a new way found yet, or maybe with WLM 2012 (if it's released very soon) that allows me to completely turn off SkyDrive and let my parent use WLM the same was as older Microsoft email program? Failing that, can Microsoft send someone over to train my parents, at their expense?
probably not likely but it is frustrating when they break what worked, and the new feature is actually worse.My Computer
At a glance
7 premium 64 bitsAMD Fusion E3001x4GB DDR3Radeon HD 6310 (integrated)
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Compaq
- OS
- 7 premium 64 bits
- CPU
- AMD Fusion E300
- Motherboard
- APXD1-DM
- Memory
- 1x4GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon HD 6310 (integrated)
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC662 (integrated)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- old Sony 15"
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- 640GB unknown
- PSU
- external Compaq branded
- Case
- Compaq standard
- Keyboard
- Compaq
- Mouse
- Compaq
- Internet Speed
- DSL 6Mbit/512K
- Antivirus
- Norton
- Browser
- Firefox and Chrome
- Other Info
- Compaq computer is basically laptop sized board with external power supply brick in a mid tower case
