I used to be able to use the photo uploader to attach multiple pictures, but now I don't even have the option to choose "photo" or upload the active x control again.  There is no longer a drop down menu under "attach".  I see others have had problems with this but nobody has gotten back to them.  I'm hoping somebody at Windows Live can answer read this and help us resolve this issue.

I am having the same problem. I tried everything that I knew to do and no luck. This is my first time to get on this solution center site and it is confussing to me.

Hey guys,

The Photo Upload Tool has been temporarily disabled.  This is to ensure that all Hotmail features are compatible with leading browser technologies including Internet Explorer.  Don’t worry this will only be a short-term change and you can expect to see this feature back in your Hotmail account as soon as the problem has been corrected.  In the meantime, you can add photos to your e-mail as attachments.  Here’s how:

1. In the compose page click Attach.
2. From the Choose file dialog box, select a photo then click Open to attach the photo.

You can also consider using Windows Live Mail.  It’s a free e-mail program that offers a feature that will enable you to easily add photos to your outgoing messages.  You can download the latest version at http://download.live.com .

FYI: I’ve moved your post to the Sending/Receiving Attachments forum.

This is an inconvenience, but I appreciate your prompt response, and I trust that you  are doing everything you can to resolve this issue.  Thank you for your help.  We will be awaiting to send pictures to our family and friends again as soon as this issue is resolved.  Nothing is perfect!

It is unfortunate that this feature has been disabled, is there a date that we can see this retored.  I have promised photos to lots of folks and it is very difficult and time consuming to send one photo at a time with the current attach file feature.  Please give a specific date if possible.

I agree.  I thought it would be fixed by now.

Its a real pain, it worked fine about a week ago, now no drop down box to select photos. I hope this is quickly resolved, why cant things be left alone!!

This was exactly the reason why I came into this help group.  Now that I know this feature will adventually return, I'll wait to send pictures out b/c it takes to long to upload each photo individually.  In the future, maybe you guys could send an email to all users that a certain feature is being turned off, etc.  I will inform my friends since everyone I know has been asking what happened to this.

I have started using windows live for sending pictures and it is incredible.  It has features that hotmail does not have.  I was so angry at first and now I am only going to use Windows Live instead of Hotmail, I wish that Hotmail would use these features in the future. Try this for now.

Hi All,

I understand that this feature is very important. However, we currently have no time frame when this issue will be resolved. I deeply appreciate your patience about this matter.

Not being able to upload photos really stinks. This has not been working for a week now. I think if I was this bad at my job I would be looking for another by now. Really unexcuseable....Shame on you msn hotmail team

Since my account was recently renewed, I have been unable to access the previous facility for attaching multiple photographs and sending them with my email. This is particularly frustaring as this feature was the main reason for me upgrading my hotmail account.

Attaching photographs individually is very time consuming and I am not sure whether the photographs will be resized for ease of sending and access. I am about to try Windows Live Mail and hope that this will enable me to send photographs easily and quickly.

The removal of this original attachment feature has been really frustaring: it has taken me two weeks to progress to this point; and this has meant that a lot of correspondance being delayed. A bright point has been the discovery of this forum. Now I need the time to spent reviewing its content.

I was so frustrated at this the night I first discovered this that I even cried and yelled at those I loved because I thought I was the one not remembering how it worked and was doing something wrong.  I do wish the company as a courtesy would let us know when things like this will be down.

Once again, I started using windows live for sending pictures and it is incredible.  It has features that hotmail does not have.  I was so angry at first and now I am only going to use Windows Live instead of Hotmail, I wish that Hotmail would use these features in the future. Again try this for now. You like me will probably prefer this feature and hopefully hotmail will begin using this as well if they are taking our feedback seriously ah....

Why did you not just leave things as they were. Its very frustrating, and at first you think its just you doing something wrong, it would help if we were alerted.

Hurry hurry please to get this option back to its former state, its really so annoying.

FYI - I TRIED that approach to adding pictures.  I sent them to myself to see what happens.  Kind of interesting......not only do I get MY picture, when I click on "next" I get a whole lot of advertising photos.  Sorry, I guess I'll have to wait till it's fixed.