That's what I told my sister. However, out of curiosity I opened the Paint program that comes with XP, and it took a while to figure out how to do it. If you look in the Help under "Resize" it misleads you. The way to do it is with the Image/Stretch/Skew option. For example, Open Paint (All Programs/Accessories/Paint, open the image, choose Image/Stretch/Skew and enter 50% for the new width and height).
Question - and THEN what do you do (assuming a novice would figure this out, since you said the HELP was misleading)? Do you need to save that resized version somewhere, and then attach it to the email? Or does it create a copy in the Paint app? What would a novice do next?
Sure seems like the Mac is much easier in this case for a novice or an expert. Just choose the photos, click 'email', and it asks you what size you want. It compresses them (if you chose that option), puts them in an email and presents that email for you to add an address. Couldn't be much simpler. And, out of curiosity, I checked the HELP section (not that you would need it) - it tells you that plain and simple.
But some people on this forum think that the Mac 'ease-of-use' is just a marketing gimmick that Mac users have been suckered into. Right. And I STILL haven't heard of any virus affecting Mac users
DW made the mistake of asking someone like this not to send this stuff, and that person got pretty huffy about it.
Man, if anyone sends me one of those 'Forward this to the rest of the world' type emails, I call them IMMEDIATELY and tell them NEVER send me one of those, and to call everyone they copied and tell them to delete my name from the list.
My SIL sent me one of those sob story ones, forward this and some kid in need will benefit, bla, bla, bla. One minute of googling showed it to be a scam - no kid, no way the kid could benefit from people sending emails, etc. Scammers just use these to collect email addresses.
I was touchy about this as I just got a new ISP and new email account, and the old one had got hit with junk. So bad that I really could not let my kids check the email. Really torqued me off that I was paying for a service, and then had to weed through trash to get to what I wanted. The filters today seem to do a pretty good job, or maybe I'm just lucky/careful?
I tell people, if there is something they really think I need to see, send it to me directly, DO NOT copy my name and send it to 100 people that will send it to who knows who. I guess BCC works, also?
-ERD50
