Perhaps it is not selected in add/remove windows components in control
panel?

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.




"Unknown" wrote in message
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Perhaps it is not selected in add/remove windows components in control
panel?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
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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


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/microsof...xpress.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...ress.ge neral
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA