Sending photos via Windows Mail

[anotheoldgit]

My operating system is Vista, and my Email programme is Windows Mail.

I am trying to send some photos attached to an Email.

I open my Pictures Folder and select the photos I wish to send and then press Email. An attach files window then opens, with the option to select the size I wish to send, I then press attach, but the following window appears headed Microsoft Outlook, along with the following message.

Either here is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfil the message request.
Please run Microsoft Outlook and set it as the default mail client.

Since I send and receive all my Emails via Windows Mail, why won't it send my photos?

[ianmunt]

Unsure of the problem,but why not open Windows Mail,compose your message in the normal way,click on INSERT /FROM FILE - .Browse to the folder the photo(s) are in,click on the ones you want and then on ATTACH.