Live mail: One or more of the pictures in this message could not be found!

No problem. But the suggestion does not have such an option in Windows live mail - (/Tools, Options..etc). Might be confusing for a newbie. My reference was to Van de Molen, am Mvp in the Vista Technet forums, quote
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Re: "pictures could not be found" in forwarded email Check your security settings: Tools, Options, Security, uncheck "Do not allow attachments..." and uncheck "Block images..." Gary VanderMolen"

I have tried all the solutions and none work. I cannot forward any e-mails that contain pictures; Only the text is forwarded. Also Live mail cannot accept copy paste pictures to messages. None of these problems existed with Outlook Express. It seems a waste of processing power when an OS like Win7 which is supposed to be very powerful when it comes to multimedia applications is given a mail client that reminds me of bygone days when multimedia was in its infancy. Microsoft is loosing it!

Fair comment. But, in defense , Windows live mail is not an integral part, or the mail client, of Windows 7, but a separate download. But perhaps you could try reinstalling Windows live Mail? I do not have the problem you are experiencing and, unfortunately, cannot replicate it to test. However, perhaps you should try Thunderbird, as Pat suggests, which is very similar to OE.

P.S. I appreciate you spelling criticism. I am English/British. I dislike, for example, having to put up with "personalize", instead of "personalise", purely because the wizards at MS consider it more correct English - lol.
PPs. Lol again! It has just tried to correct my spelling here!

Hi tanzanos,

I think he is smart enough to get what i am trying to explain him.

If you have tried disabling the options i have mentioned above but did not work with you, nevermind, please try to disable your ANTIVIRUS/FIREWALL Programs. It might be an issue that security of your computer is tight.

Default Programs select Set Your Default Program and select windows live mail in the left pane and click on SET THIS PROGRAM AS DEFAULT in bottom pane.

Try to remove WLM completely then install it back.

Let me know after this workaround.

Lovetohelp,
Thank you for your advice but you seem to be unaware that Microsoft has admitted that Live mail cannot do the things I am expecting it to do; Namely forwarding messages with pictures and cut paste pictures into messages. Perhaps you have the older version of Live mail which had no such problems. Also the lack of a separate British Spell check is infuriating to say the least. As for Thunderbird I will not even consider a web based client. My brother lost all his e-mails with Thunderbird and those were business e-mails. Sorry but Microsoft has once more failed to give us a complete and functional mail client as well as the Win7 OS which lacks classic menus.

Originally Posted by tanzanos

As for Thunderbird I will not even consider a web based client.

While I will admit, it has been a long time since I have used Thunderbird, I don't remember it being a web based client. I was under the impression that it was a locally installed program which maintained all your account information in a "Profile" folder locally on your machine.
Profile folder - Thunderbird - MozillaZine Knowledge Base