Why does it take so long to download attachments?

Some photos I receive have a sheet of paper with the right hand corner earmarked, and when I try to 'view' download, and/or open, nothing happens? The ones with ...show more

In Yahoo email, some attachments do not download. When I click on them, I get yahoo's "Virus scanning attachment" message, but it never finishes scanning the file (even if it's relatively small). This happens (for the same attachment) on several...

About half the time I try to open or save an attachment I receive in my Yahoo! mail account, it gets stuck on the "Getting File Information" dialog box. For example, it ...show more

Recently (after 4/9/2009), when I receive email messages from any Yahoo group that has an attachment, I cannot download/save that attachment: Details: I receive individual emails from my groups I use Outlook Express I view email messages in PLAIN TEXT...

the download take forever and in the end I cancel as no attachments are actually downloading. Picture shows papers from a globe going to a file and ths goes on and on. Is this quite common? Is there a firewall that is blocking the information from coming...

there was a shortcut in yahoo mail to download all attachments at once that is not being shown in beta version. what is the substitute for that

I have windows xp..the problem is below but the question I will put first Most important question-is there anyway to see the attachments..will a different program work..It does this regardless of if from documnents, hotmail or yahoo. please tell me in...