On 11 Mar 2018 16:40:54 GMT, Frank Slootweg, thunk thusly:
Brick wrote:
On 11 Mar 2018 16:09:34 GMT, Frank Slootweg, thunk thusly:
HB wrote:
"wg_2002" wrote in message
news On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 04:29:14 -0400, HB wrote:

....wiped out OE6. It's still there but will not work anymore. So now I
have a laptop I can't use for email. I don't understand why the hell MS
would give a &^%$ that someone would want to use OE.

And what really eats my lunch is these updates are FORCED on us. Our
choice was taken away.

There has to be a way to stop them, maybe in the regestry. Someone on
this group must know how to stop these updates.

It's an archaic piece of software that is best put out to pasture just
like the OS that is shipped with.
If you do not care for the update cycle of Windows10 you can always choose
another alternative.

What other alternative is there where the kids can play their games created
to run on Windows, or the wife's interior design software created for
windows, or music editing software my son uses, the image editing software
my daughter uses... all this software would be useless on a Mac or other
system. And we all used OE6 and WindowsMail before that.

Indeed! Classic example of shooting the messenger, instead of blaming
Microsoft for not providing an alternative for Outlook Express / Windows
Mail.

I run Windows Live Mail on Windows 10, so that's an option.

If you can stand the bugs [1] in Windows Live Mail.

I couldn't, so I 'switched' to Thunderbird (see my horror story on
that).

[1] No, I don't remember them all. Too long ago. But - for me - there
were too many. IIRC, the final straw was WLM not removing old messages
from the (POP) server.

That bug doesn't affect me for some reason, but my email requirements don't
include archiving or anything else that important.

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Brick Mortar