How to get and install OE?

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Jorge Cerva tes

I understand that OE is no longer available. But OE works just fine in
three of my XP computers for reading newsgroups.
Recently, I reformatted and re-installed WinXP SP3 on one of the computer.
I missed OE. How can I get and re-install OE? There must be a trick to do
it? Jorge
 
Jorge Cerva tes said:
I understand that OE is no longer available. But OE works just fine in
three of my XP computers for reading newsgroups.
Recently, I reformatted and re-installed WinXP SP3 on one of the
computer. I missed OE. How can I get and re-install OE? There must be
a trick to do it? Jorge
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OE is a part of IE6 and XP, so it is already on your machine, somewhere.

Copy this:

c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe

Start | Run and Paste it in | OK.

Now go to the Control Panel | Set Program Access and Defaults and set OE
as default and then you should have the shortcut.

Outlook Express General newsgroup:

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
 
Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?

Jorge
 
Jorge said:
how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?
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When it was supported, OE came bundled with IE. OE has long been
unsupported. It is a dead program. The last program updates were back in
2002 with one later functional change in SP-2 for Windows XP (to add
registry hacks for top/bottom-posting and signature placement). The
development team disbanded in 2006. You cannot get OE separately from IE.
They came bundled together. As of IE7 and later, OE is no longer bundled
with IE. Microsoft isn't going to bundle unsupported products with
supported products.

Vista comes with IE7 and Windows 7 comes with IE8 as their baseline versions
of that web browser. You cannot install earlier versions of IE on those
Windows platforms.

You could run VirtualPC, VMWare Server, VirtualBox, or other virtual machine
managers (VMM) on Vista, install a pre-Vista version of Windows in a virtual
machine, and have OE running inside that virtual machine. That requires
installing the VMM, installing an OS in a virtual machine (VM), and then
load that VM when you want to run OE. A lot of work and nuisance to run a
long-dead e-mail client.

Windows Mail (WM) is the e-mail client included in Windows Vista. Windows
Live Mail (WLM) is the replacement for both OE and WM. Windows 7 does not
come with an e-mail client so you will have to install one.

http://download.live.com

After installing just WLM, go into Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the
extra fluff software that Microsoft pushes onto you. While WLM is
reminiscent of OE, it has some functional differences. The WLM newsgroup is
at:

microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
 
Jorge said:
Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?

Jorge
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Have you considered Mozilla Thunderbird? It's still supported, operates
similar to OE, and the filters are more complete. The best example is
that you can set a filter "If the sender is in my address book", or "If
the sender isn't in my address book".
 
Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?
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Sorry, but no, you can't do that. You might want to download and try
the free Windows Live Mail, which is a descendant of OE, and somewhat
similar to it.
 
Go to control panel---add/remove programs---on left side click add/remove
windows components--then put an X in the
OE box.
 
Perhaps it is not selected in add/remove windows components in control
panel?
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In the past, I have done reformat and re-install WinXP Pro many times. In
the past, OE is automatically showed up.
I have never looked at add/remove windows compnents. This time, OE did not
show up. So I thought that automatic IE8 installation excluded OE.
 
But, did you check add/remove windows components? Perhaps many things have
changed
since you last reinstalled. IE is OE checked in add/remove components?
 
Unknown said:
He reinstalled XP therefore OE exists on his system.
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Read ALL posts in this subthread, including the OP's own reply. Explain how
you missed that he asked about using OE under */Windows 7/*.
 
John said:
VanguardLH said:
The Microsoft community for Windows 7 is found at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro
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And there is already a newsgroup:
alt.windows7.general
(in fact there are also three nl [Dutch] and two it [Italian] ones too).
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Which is NOT a pervasive newsgroup. Not many NNTP servers carry it (yet).
It is also under the WRONG hierarchy. Microsoft also seems bent on
abandoning its attempt to usurp Usenet with its pretend forums and
gatewaying them to Usenet and instead migrating to forums.
 
I think you are confused. Reread his post. He is indicating that he doesn't
have OE
after reinstalling XP. He reinstalled "XP" therefore OE is on his computer.
To activate it, go to control panel add/remove and then add/remove windows
components.
Put an X in the box labeled Outlook express.
OE cannot be used with Windows 7.
 
Unknown said:
VanguardLH (e-mail address removed) wrote ...


I think you are confused. Reread his post.
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*YOU* reread his SECOND post in this subthread. See the sentence ending in
a question mark?
He is indicating that he doesn't have OE after reinstalling XP.
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Yep, and NOT to what I addressed my reply in his SECOND post.
He reinstalled "XP" therefore OE is on his computer.
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Okay, so apparently you cannot see the OP's 2nd post in this subthread and
where he asks about Windows 7. Since that post is missing for you which
makes for an incomplete subthread, you might have to right-click on the
newsgroup in OE (the newsreader that you are using), Properties, and Reset
that group to re-retrieve all headers (make sure the option to retrieve only
N headers at a time is disabled). Perhaps the OP's 2nd post would then show
up for you to see it.

You really don't see the OP's post which has "BTW, how about installing OE
on Windows 7?" and is the question which *I* addressed? I see you agree
with my statements, anyway, despite you not seeing the OP asked *another*
question in his second post.
 
Jorge,
You could try this; Open Control Panel > "Add or Remove Programs" and press
on the button named "Add/Remove Window's Components".

A new windows will appear after a short time named "Windows Components Wizard".

Scroll down to the "Outlook Express" item near the bottom of the list.

If the item IS checked, uncheck it, close all windows by clicking [ok] and reboot.

After rebooting, re-open the "Windows Components Wizard" again and find the "Outlook
Express" item and this time checkmark it, then press [ok].

If the "Outlook Express" item was unchecked to begin with, just checkmark it and
press [ok].


Before you do this, however, do double check that the "Outlook Express" program is
definitely not installed by going to the "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express" folder to
see if it, and the file "msimn.exe", exists on your machine.

Because I don't know - it could be that you just lost the shortcuts to the program...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
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