Wrong you open your email and find an attachment. To open it you click on open attachment/Click to choose what application you want to use/find the application(ex. WMP) and click on it to open/Then you click on WMP/ click open and then wait for the attachment to download in preview and finally it runs. And you have to do this every single time you open an attachment.
On a PC you click download attachment and WMP opens and runs the attachment. That is pretty clear cut difference to me.
Either I have the only Mac that doesn’t work right or you guys all of special machines.
Never mind. Were I in the position to do so, I would just take your computer away. You’d be a lot happier. But, as a last hint, might I suggest you RTFM? or at least click on that cool little menu item “Help”? Or better yet, let your wife post here. You don’t want to learn. Class dismissed.
Those things should work on your Mac. You may need to download and install some free software, like Microsoft's Windows Media Player, or Flip4Mac or VNC.
You haven’t listed seven steps to open an email attachment. When I get a pdf attachment I either save it to the desktop and open it later or I click on the pdf icon in the text box and Acrobat Reader opens it. Same with a jpeg or gif, except they frequently appear in the text box when the email is opened, no clicking required (only if I want to save to the desktop). Don’t know what WMP is, and nothing is downloaded to preview. You do appear to have the only Mac that doesn’t work right.