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Removing Outlook Express
Oh boy!
I have a problem. I have discovered how hard it apparently is to remove Outlook Express in XP. My son in Calif has messed up his OE so bad I figure the best thing for him to do is uninstall the thing and then reinstall. Imagine my dismay to discover how involved that is. So - can anyone tell me a simple (I emphasize simple) way that he do what I think he should do? There is a program to do this I think I see (Google), but you gotta pay for the dang thing. Is that my only choice? Help! Duke |
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Removing Outlook Express
I believe it can be done from the Control Panel. Click on the Start button,
then select Control Panel. When the Control Panel comes up, select Add or Remove Programs. When the next Window opens on the left side is a block marked "Add or Remove Windows Components". Select this and scroll down until you see "Outlook Express" and check that box. Make sure that no other boxes are checked and you will need your WinXP installation disk. Click Next and follow instructions. (Note: this should work, but I didn't go all the way to try it as I don't want to remove OE from my computer!) Good luck. TRCSr wrote in message ... Oh boy! I have a problem. I have discovered how hard it apparently is to remove Outlook Express in XP. My son in Calif has messed up his OE so bad I figure the best thing for him to do is uninstall the thing and then reinstall. Imagine my dismay to discover how involved that is. So - can anyone tell me a simple (I emphasize simple) way that he do what I think he should do? There is a program to do this I think I see (Google), but you gotta pay for the dang thing. Is that my only choice? Help! Duke |
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Removing Outlook Express
You are not able to uninstall or remove Outlook Express. It is an integral part of
Internet Explorer and Windows XP. All you can do is to remove the access to it by removing the Icon on your desktop. You can of course try the following http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q318378 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. wrote in message ... Oh boy! I have a problem. I have discovered how hard it apparently is to remove Outlook Express in XP. My son in Calif has messed up his OE so bad I figure the best thing for him to do is uninstall the thing and then reinstall. Imagine my dismay to discover how involved that is. So - can anyone tell me a simple (I emphasize simple) way that he do what I think he should do? There is a program to do this I think I see (Google), but you gotta pay for the dang thing. Is that my only choice? Help! Duke |
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... My son in Calif has messed up his OE so bad I figure the best thing for him to do is uninstall the thing and then reinstall. Imagine my dismay to discover how involved that is. It may be faster simply to reinstal Firefox (free from www.mozilla.com.) WinXP Update will require OE (i.e. will not respond correctly to Firefox) but he can repair or reinstal this later. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Removing Outlook Express
No, it can't be done from the Control Panel.
The option in Add/Remove/Windows Components is exactly what it says, i.e. "Adds or removes access to Outlook Express from the Start menu". It does not remove OE. ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.com/index.htm On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:58:16 -0500, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, "TRCSr" wrote: I believe it can be done from the Control Panel. Click on the Start button, then select Control Panel. When the Control Panel comes up, select Add or Remove Programs. When the next Window opens on the left side is a block marked "Add or Remove Windows Components". Select this and scroll down until you see "Outlook Express" and check that box. Make sure that no other boxes are checked and you will need your WinXP installation disk. Click Next and follow instructions. (Note: this should work, but I didn't go all the way to try it as I don't want to remove OE from my computer!) Good luck. TRCSr wrote in message .. . Oh boy! I have a problem. I have discovered how hard it apparently is to remove Outlook Express in XP. My son in Calif has messed up his OE so bad I figure the best thing for him to do is uninstall the thing and then reinstall. Imagine my dismay to discover how involved that is. So - can anyone tell me a simple (I emphasize simple) way that he do what I think he should do? There is a program to do this I think I see (Google), but you gotta pay for the dang thing. Is that my only choice? Help! Duke |
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Removing Outlook Express
Oh boy!
I have a problem. I have discovered how hard it apparently is to remove Outlook Express in XP. My son in Calif has messed up his OE so bad I figure the best thing for him to do is uninstall the thing and then reinstall. Imagine my dismay to discover how involved that is. So - can anyone tell me a simple (I emphasize simple) way that he do what I think he should do? There is a program to do this I think I see (Google), but you gotta pay for the dang thing. Is that my only choice? Help! Duke Best/easiest thing to do is download and install a new IE6 (or IE7 if you want tabbed browsing and other things it offers). They're both available from the Microsoft site. That way everything gets reloaded and reinstalled. You can't remove OE: It's part of IE which in turn is part of XP; an integral part. Any program that claims to fully "remove" OE is lying and it cannot be done, from everything I've read. It CAN be made invisible so it'll seem to not be there, but the needed parts obviously will still be there or the machine wouldn't boot properly. I've no actual experience with that but I've read it enough from reputable resources (non MS) to believe it's the case. Get IE6 or 7 right from MS; don't trust a site that could have *******ized it and done who knows what to it or you could end up with even more problems. OR, if you have your original XP CD, you could use Control Panel's add/remove, add/remove windows COMPONENTS to do essentially the same thing. HTH, Twayne HTH, Twayne |
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