{"id":201,"date":"2017-06-06T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filerepairtools.com\/tips\/?p=201"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:08:52","slug":"fix-email-attachment-not-opening-error-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/fix-email-attachment-not-opening-error-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Email Attachment Not Opening Error in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

After upgrading to new Windows 10, you may be having problems while accessing attachments. When you try to open Office documents attached to Outlook messages error messages\u00a0stating that the file is corrupt or there is an error occurs. The error message looks like this:<\/p>\n

If accessing Excel file: \u201cThis file is corrupt and cannot be opened\u201d
\nWhile accessing Word file: \u201cWord experienced an error trying to open the file\u201d
\nWhile accessing PowerPoint File: \u201cThe application was unable to start correctly\u201d or \u201cPowerPoint found a problem with <name of file>\u201d or \u201dSorry, PowerPoint can\u2019t read <name of file>\u201d<\/p>\n

Steps to Fix Email Attachment Not Opening Error<\/h2>\n

In this article, I will let you know how to fix email attachment not opening errors in Windows 10. The attachments which were working fine before upgrading to Windows 10 is now returning errors, don\u2019t worry as there are no errors in your emails only there is some problem with file permissions. The outlook is opening these files in Protected View<\/strong>\u00a0which is enabled by default.<\/p>\n

You can disable protected views to fixing this problem but it is not recommended as Virus or Trojan infected documents can run code easily.<\/em><\/p>\n

To Fix file permissions Follow the steps:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Right-click on Start<\/strong>\u00a0and Select\u00a0Command Prompt(Admin)\"\"<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Copy this command\u201c%programfiles%\\Microsoft Office 15\u201d \/grant *S-1-15-2-1:(OI)(CI)RX<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Now paste the command in command prompt.\"\"<\/li>\n
  4. Press Enter<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This will fix the permission issue, If you are still having errors you have to run Online Office Repair, To do so follow the steps mentioned below:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Right-click on Start then Select Programs and Features<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Select Microsoft Office install Now select Change\"\"<\/li>\n
    3. Select\u00a0Online Repair\u00a0then click\u00a0Repair\u00a0to begin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      After upgrading to new Windows 10, you may be having problems while accessing attachments. When you try to open Office documents attached to Outlook messages error messages\u00a0stating that the file is corrupt or there is an error occurs. The error message looks like this: If accessing Excel file: \u201cThis file is corrupt and cannot be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filerepairtools.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}