Window 10 email not downloading pictures

This is no longer the case in Windows Microsoft actually wants you go through a painful process where you set the default app for each extension protocol.

You don't have a category called "Web browser" where you can just set Chrome as the default browser and be done with it, you have to manually set it for each extension. Check the screenshot above to get an idea of what I'm talking about if you haven't gotten around to using Windows 11 yourself.

Granted that it's a one-time activity, but it's so much extra effort just to change your default browser or any other app, really. Microsoft's sheer audacity to implement such an anti-competitive tactic in an OS that is used by millions is just infuriating. While third-party developers and firms are attempting workarounds to bypass Microsoft's restrictions, it does seem like that they'll face a difficult time. You can read more of my rant on this topic in the dedicated piece here.

The new context menu or the right-click menu depending on what you call it is an interesting experiment into making a UI element more accessible and simplified while still retaining all functionalities via workarounds.

Essentially, as you can see in the screenshot above, Microsoft has grouped some common items such as cut, copy, rename, share, and delete to the toolbar at the top of the context menu while some other functionalities are at the bottom. But you'll notice that many third-party apps that gave you an "open with" option or other similar to that are not visible by default. You actually have to click on the "Show more options" at the bottom of the context menu to get the Windows 10 version back which will have all the verbs.

In an effort to organize the context menu a bit better, Microsoft now expects developers to update their apps according to a new integration mechanism through which their app's verbs will be grouped neatly in the taskbar. I don't see a fault in the approach itself, but the issue is that this puts way too much responsibility on an app developer to update all their old apps to integrate with Windows So if a developer has moved on to newer projects or abandoned their software completely, you as a user will be out of luck unless you implement some workarounds to integrate verbs to the native context menu.

You could use the "Show more options" button to just utilize the old context menu, but it obviously requires an extra click that is not good for a streamlined user experience, and there's actually no knowing if Microsoft eventually decides to do away with it completely and leave old apps and their consumers out in the cold.

There's just too much uncertainty at this point for it to be enforced upon developers, and more importantly, consumers in this way. I actually like the look of the updated context menu, but given that Microsoft seems to have sacrificed functionality for aesthetics in so many elements of the UI already, I fear that the old context menu will get the ax soon as well, which makes the updated context menu a very difficult sell for me.

Check out more of my thoughts on this topic here. When I initially talked about the Start menu in my Closer Look piece several weeks ago, I mentioned that since I don't use it much, its deficiencies don't bother me a lot.

However, I don't know why, but I have been using the Start menu considerably more in Windows 11 compared to Windows I don't know if it's something to do with the centered position of the Taskbar which encourages me to click on the Start menu more than usual, or if it's something else, but that's just how it is.

The problem with the Start menu in Windows 11 is the same. Aesthetically, it's very pleasing to look at but in terms of user experience, it leaves a lot to be desired. There's no love lost for the absent Live Tiles, but I do miss the functionality that went away with it. There is no way to group apps which means that you'll potentially have to scroll a lot if you have lots of apps pinned that you actively use. The other downer is that "Recommended" section that takes up the bottom section of the Start menu to show you files that you recently used.

While you can disable it if you have privacy concerns, especially when sharing your screen online, the problem is that all that space is wasted. Microsoft doesn't extend the Start menu's app list to utilize all the whitespace, it's just left unutilized, which seems like a major design and engineering oversight. But perhaps the worst culprit is the search bar that has been integrated into the Start menu. You would expect that if you click on it, you'll be able to quickly fire in some search queries, but it actually has a massive jitter as it stutters and opens up Windows Search, which is actually a separate interface.

The integration is so jarring that you can only gaze in wonder about how Microsoft thought that it was good enough to ship. What this means is that if you're on a single display, you can either view your Widgets or use your primary window, there's absolutely no concept of multitasking. If you click on the primary window, the Widgets flyout closes, it's super-annoying.

While you can customize it to your liking, to show you topics that interest you, I do have to talk about the integration between Calendar and Widgets. You can only sync your calendar agenda to Widgets if you use an Outlook. If you're using any other email provider, you're out of luck. Given the lack of integration of the Agenda view with the Calendar flyout in the system tray, what this means is that if you want to view your daily agenda with a third-party email provider, you necessarily have to open the dedicated Calendar app because Microsoft has decided that it's not going to help you out.

Long live simplification! Have you started using Windows 11 yet? Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. However my personal Xtra account still loads all emails but I can't view them and I still get the message "Download messages and pictures" I've gone online and was able to look at the emails through Yahoo and know I have the password correct.

I also know the pop server works with Mail and Windows 10 as the other Xtra email address works fine. Can you please help? This appears to be a bug - I have tried just about all of the suggestions out there and absolutely nothing worked. That is until I came across a solution posted on a forum, which I have been unable to find again to post a 'thank you'.

Click the 'Forward' link. In the new mail that is created the original email will appear. Close the forwarded email and the mail body will then show in the originally received mail. Not a very elegant solution, but saves hours of re-installing, or standing in the corner of the room with one foot in a bucket of iced water whilst pointing north and all the other suggestions out there. Had the same issue. The Download Messages and Pictures link would not work.

Another support page suggested the following: Close the Mail app, go to Windows Settings gear icon , click on Apps, choose the Mail and Calendar app from the list, click the Advanced Options link, and then click the Reset button.

When I reopened the app, this did the trick for me. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. On the Preferences screen, click on the Viewing tab and make sure that Load remote content in messages option is checked. The Mail Settings on your iPhone or iPad can influence whether or not images are displayed in messages. Open Settings on your iPhone, scroll down and tap on Mail.

Sometimes, your iPhone may not automatically download images in large messages due to restrictions on the size of downloaded content. In such cases, you can display images by scrolling down to the bottom of the message and tapping on Download Full Message button.