Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed on my XP Outlook Express

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Patti Barden

Hi,
My husband just got a new laptop with W7. He says it does not run Outlook
Express mail.
He has been struggling for days. Tried "Thunderbird" mail and could not get
it set up and is
currently trying to set up Windows Live.

Any suggestions. Thank you.
Patti
 
Patti said:
Hi,
My husband just got a new laptop with W7. He says it does not run Outlook
Express mail.
He has been struggling for days. Tried "Thunderbird" mail and could not get
it set up and is
currently trying to set up Windows Live.

Any suggestions. Thank you.
Patti
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The Microsoft community for Windows 7 is found at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro


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 functional change in SP-2 for Windows
XP). The dev team disbanded in 2006.

As of IE7 and later, OE is no longer bundled with IE. Microsoft isn't going
to bundle unsupported products with supported products.

You can't get OE separate from IE. They came bundled together.

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.

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
 
Windows 7 does not ship with a native e-mail client. Your husband is
free to choose any current e-mail client, including Windows Live Mail
(or whatever it's being called now; I can't keep up.)

Outlook Express was retired long ago, and is not supported on Windows 7.

Thus far, Microsoft has not sponsored a newsgroup for Windows 7. They
are preferring to use web forums. Try here:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7
 
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