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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed on my XP Outlook Express
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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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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed on my XP Outlook Express
Patti Barden wrote:
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 The Microsoft community for Windows 7 is found at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...tegory/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 |
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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed on my XP Outlook Express
Patti Barden wrote:
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 The Microsoft community for Windows 7 is found at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...tegory/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 |
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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed onmy XP Outlook Express
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 he http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...egory/windows7 --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Patti Barden wrote: 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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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed onmy XP Outlook Express
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 he http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...egory/windows7 --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Patti Barden wrote: 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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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed on my XP Outlook Express
Thanks from Patti's husband.
"Patti Barden" wrote in message ... 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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Windows 7 - is there a news group? I don't see one listed on my XP Outlook Express
Thanks from Patti's husband. "Patti Barden" wrote in message ... 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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