Outlook 2003 Won't Send Attachments When They Are Open

[MalNSF]

Hello,

All of a sudden my Outlook 2003 is acting very strange. When I am
working on a file and I choose File>Send>As Attachment, it brings up
the email window and let's me type everything ok, but when I hit send,
it just freezes and nothing happens. The mail won't send.

I have outlook open and running all day. This happens with every file
I try to attach and send from Word, Excel, and even if I try it from
the right click menu on a file such as an image.

I have applied all of the updates so I have the most current product.

The work around that I have been using is to save the email and then
close the window. It shows up in my inbox, where I open it and hit
send and it works fine.

Does anyone have a fix?

The only outside issue that I can think of is that I installed an HP
Officejet Software program recently.

I would really appreciate any help as this is very annoying.

Thank you in advance.
MalNSF

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Do things work better if the attachments aren't open when you try to send
them?

 

[MalNSF]

Yes, it works fine if I open an email and then attach an unopened file.
I uninstalled the HP drivers and it seems to be working better today.
I am wondering if the HP Printer was causing the problem. The down
side is that now I don't have a printer installed. I will try to
install the printer again and see if the problem starts back up.

Any other thoughts that you may have?

Thank you.

 

[MalNSF]

Hello Again,

It is not the HP driver. The problem is happening again today after
the printer uninstall.

Thanks.
MalNSF

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Any other commonalities? Possibly the install of a desktop search engine or
some such thing?

 

[MalNSF]

No, no other recent installs. It only happens when the document is
open.

Thanks.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Do you have a virus scanner? I'm curious if it might be getting in the way.