Windows 7 using Windows Live Mail 2012 (desktop client).

How do you work the following example without going through SkyDrive?

Example:  Right-click on picture file on computer, choose “Send to – Mail recipient,” have Windows Live Mail open with a new message and the file attached.

What happens now is a new message opens and the file is said to be on SkyDrive for others to see when they read get my e-mail.  I want it attached directly to the e-mail like it did in my last OS: Windows XP.

The picture file is 305 KB.  When I try with a Word file, it works fine.  When I try with a PDF file of 2.95 MB, it works fine. So it seems to be only with pictures.  I have tried others.  

The default e-mail application is Windows Live Mail 2012, and all associations are set for it.