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  #1  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Jorge Cerva tes
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Default How to get and install OE?

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


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  #2  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Bruce Hagen
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Default How to get and install OE?

"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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

  #3  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Bruce Hagen
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Posts: 1,235
Default How to get and install OE?

"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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

  #4  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Jorge Cerva tes
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Posts: 10
Default How to get and install OE?

Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?

Jorge


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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



  #5  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Jorge Cerva tes
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Posts: 10
Default How to get and install OE?

Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?

Jorge


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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



  #6  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default How to get and install OE?

Jorge Cerva tes wrote:

how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?


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 later functional change in SP-2 for Windows XP (to add
registry hacks for top/bottom-posting and signature placement). The
development team disbanded in 2006. You cannot get OE separately from IE.
They came bundled together. As of IE7 and later, OE is no longer bundled
with IE. Microsoft isn't going to bundle unsupported products with
supported products.

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. Windows 7 does not
come with an e-mail client so you will have to install one.

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

  #7  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Posts: 10,881
Default How to get and install OE?

Jorge Cerva tes wrote:

how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?


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 later functional change in SP-2 for Windows XP (to add
registry hacks for top/bottom-posting and signature placement). The
development team disbanded in 2006. You cannot get OE separately from IE.
They came bundled together. As of IE7 and later, OE is no longer bundled
with IE. Microsoft isn't going to bundle unsupported products with
supported products.

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. Windows 7 does not
come with an e-mail client so you will have to install one.

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

  #8  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Posts: 10,881
Default How to get and install OE?

Jorge Cerva tes wrote:

... Windows 7 ...


The Microsoft community for Windows 7 is found at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...tegory/w7itpro
  #9  
Old January 23rd 10, 07:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Posts: 10,881
Default How to get and install OE?

Jorge Cerva tes wrote:

... Windows 7 ...


The Microsoft community for Windows 7 is found at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...tegory/w7itpro
  #10  
Old January 23rd 10, 08:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Elmo[_2_]
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Default How to get and install OE?

Jorge Cerva tes wrote:
Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?

Jorge


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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


Have you considered Mozilla Thunderbird? It's still supported, operates
similar to OE, and the filters are more complete. The best example is
that you can set a filter "If the sender is in my address book", or "If
the sender isn't in my address book".

--
Joe =o)
  #11  
Old January 23rd 10, 08:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Elmo[_2_]
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Posts: 1,260
Default How to get and install OE?


Jorge Cerva tes wrote:
Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?

Jorge


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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


Have you considered Mozilla Thunderbird? It's still supported, operates
similar to OE, and the filters are more complete. The best example is
that you can set a filter "If the sender is in my address book", or "If
the sender isn't in my address book".

--
Joe =o)
  #12  
Old January 23rd 10, 08:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Ken Blake, MVP
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Posts: 10,402
Default How to get and install OE?

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:35:36 -0700, "Jorge Cerva tes"
wrote:

Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?



Sorry, but no, you can't do that. You might want to download and try
the free Windows Live Mail, which is a descendant of OE, and somewhat
similar to it.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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



--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
  #13  
Old January 23rd 10, 08:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Ken Blake, MVP
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Posts: 10,402
Default How to get and install OE?

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:35:36 -0700, "Jorge Cerva tes"
wrote:

Thanks. I will try it when I get to back to my office Monday.

BTW, how about installing OE on Windows 7 machine?



Sorry, but no, you can't do that. You might want to download and try
the free Windows Live Mail, which is a descendant of OE, and somewhat
similar to it.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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



--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
  #14  
Old January 23rd 10, 10:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Unknown
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Posts: 6,007
Default How to get and install OE?

Go to control panel---add/remove programs---on left side click add/remove
windows components--then put an X in the
OE box.
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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



  #15  
Old January 23rd 10, 10:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Unknown
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Posts: 6,007
Default How to get and install OE?

Go to control panel---add/remove programs---on left side click add/remove
windows components--then put an X in the
OE box.
"Jorge Cerva tes" wrote in message
...
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



 




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