Emailing EXE ciles

[photomom]

I just purchased Pics2Exe ... how do I go about emailing a slideshow!? I use MSN for email ... for some reason whenever I try to attach the file, it says Access to the following potentially unsafe attachments has been blocked. SLIDESHOW.exe.

Please, if anyone could help, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks!

[nickles]

Photomom,

I would suggest that you zip it, before attaching. A lot of services will not attach or accept a *.exe do to the worry of viruses.

krn

[JRR]

.EXE files are viewed by many softwares as dangerous and won't send/receive them.

You could zip the file.

But most files are WAY to big to e-mail.

There are several services you could use:

www.dropload.com (it is free, but you can only send your file to one e-mail address at a time)

www.yousendit.com (It is also free and will allow many e-mail addresses. The receipients have to put up with POP UPs though during the download)

www.streamload.com (It is an excellent service for sending large files, plus storing your backups, but it is not free)

You should also be aware that UPLOADING is very much slower than DOWNLOADING !!! (About 4 times slower)

[Lin Evans]

You could also just change the extension to .ex (drop the final e) and tell the party you email it to that they can rename it to "filename.exe".

Lin

[photomom]

Thanks so much everyone!

How do you zip the file?

Thanks!

[boxig]

How do you zip the file?

"winzip" ?

[Conflow]

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[DaveG]

Zipped Folder:

If you are using Windows XP you can right click just about anywhere and create a "new" - " compressed (zipped) folder" - then just drag and drop your exe file onto the new folder and it is done.

DaveG

[Ronniebootwest]

I am not sure, but I think that AOL automatically 'zips' all .exe files sent as email attachments.

Ron