Rescue Me.

Does Vista have Outlook Express, and where is it?

Your timely answer could save random innocent lives.

On Mon, 7 May 2007 02:35:57 -0400, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
<Popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:

>
> Does Vista have Outlook Express, and where is it?
>
> Your timely answer could save random innocent lives.
>

Vista... Just say, "NO"...

I don't know squat about Vista, but this may help anyway. The executable
file for my Windows XP version of Outlook Express is called msimn.exe. Do a
file search for it and see what you get. If that doesn't work, try a search
for the words Outlook Express of msoe*.*

Lee

"Lee Bell" <pleebell@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:OZC%h.24201$vD4.20042@bigfe9...
>I don't know squat about Vista, but this may help anyway. The executable
>file for my Windows XP version of Outlook Express is called msimn.exe. Do
>a file search for it and see what you get. If that doesn't work, try a
>search for the words Outlook Express of msoe*.*

I had Scott help me pick up a new laptop this weekend, just a stopgap
until the custom order is ready, and AFAICT, Vista is the only common
choice.

OE does not seem to be on the machine anywhere.

I wonder if it can be downloaded?

I know you can get upgrades for it.

OUTLOOK is horrifying.

On Mon, 7 May 2007 23:29:03 -0400, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick" <Popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:

> I had Scott help me pick up a new laptop this weekend, just a stopgap
>until the custom order is ready, and AFAICT, Vista is the only common
>choice.
>
> OE does not seem to be on the machine anywhere.
>
> I wonder if it can be downloaded?
>
> I know you can get upgrades for it.
>
> OUTLOOK is horrifying.

Unfortunately, as Janusz said, OE and Outlook have both been replaced by "Windows Mail."
I quote the following from my "Windows Vista" Installation Manual:

"Windows Mail is an improved e-mail program that filters junk mail
and can help protect you from attacks aimed at stealing your personal
information, and malicious software delivered through e-mail attachments."

While I gather you probably could get OE to work under Vista if you could accumualte
all the right components to install, it would be difficult as Windows Mail probably is built
for more advanced versions of ".NET" and for the "Areo" graphical representation platform.
I would think OE would choke on that, or cause other Vista components to choke if you tried
to install it and all the supporting modules over a clean Vista install.

That's why I use Agent 4.x for USENET and e-mail (at home anyway). Works like a charm.
Of course, I have yet to install it on Vista, but I'm confident it will work.

If you're interested: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/vista.php



____________________________________________
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Arnold


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On Tue, 08 May 2007 04:19:39 GMT, mag3 <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> "Windows Mail is an improved e-mail program that filters junk mail
> and can help protect you from attacks aimed at stealing your personal
> information, and malicious software delivered through e-mail attachments."

In other words, trade one set of bugs and security holes for a
completely different set... As if XP didn't screw up enough
applications to prevent them from working, I hate to think how many
additional ones that Vista have screwed up...

> That's why I use Agent 4.x for USENET and e-mail (at home anyway). Works like a charm.
> Of course, I have yet to install it on Vista, but I'm confident it will work.

I use Agent on one of my machines... It's not perfect... It doesn't do
everything that I want, but neither do any of the other newsreaders
out there... I have installed different newsreaders on different
machines in the hope that I would encounter one of them that did
*everything* that I want... No such luck... Pan is pretty good
though...

On Tue, 08 May 2007 00:52:46 -0500, Grumman-581 <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM-gmail.com> wrote:


>I use Agent on one of my machines... It's not perfect...

Agent has served me well for almost all of my Internet lifetime (more than
10 years). I still keep threads going back that far in some of my newsgroup
folders. The last major release gave me "personae" which is really what I
needed/wanted (ie. multiple e-mail identities) to help fight spammage, or at
least track it better.

>It doesn't do everything that I want, but neither do any of the other newsreaders
>out there... I have installed different newsreaders on different
>machines in the hope that I would encounter one of them that did
>*everything* that I want... No such luck...

Just out of curiosity, what do you need that they don't provide?

____________________________________________
Regards,

Arnold

On Tue, 08 May 2007 00:52:46 -0500, Grumman-581
<grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM-gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 08 May 2007 04:19:39 GMT, mag3 <zmpmag3-plongee@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>> "Windows Mail is an improved e-mail program that filters junk mail
>> and can help protect you from attacks aimed at stealing your personal
>> information, and malicious software delivered through e-mail attachments."
>
>In other words, trade one set of bugs and security holes for a
>completely different set... As if XP didn't screw up enough
>applications to prevent them from working, I hate to think how many
>additional ones that Vista have screwed up...
>
>> That's why I use Agent 4.x for USENET and e-mail (at home anyway). Works like a charm.
>> Of course, I have yet to install it on Vista, but I'm confident it will work.
>
>I use Agent on one of my machines... It's not perfect... It doesn't do
>everything that I want, but neither do any of the other newsreaders
>out there... I have installed different newsreaders on different
>machines in the hope that I would encounter one of them that did
>*everything* that I want... No such luck... Pan is pretty good
>though...

I've been running Forte Agent for a long time. I tried Pan, Knode,
and some other newsreaders and have come back always to Agent.
Currently I'm running 4.X under Linux with Wine. It was a no-brainer
to set up, it was so easy. I have this machine set up as a dual-boot
machine so I can get to Windows if I need, but I find myself booting
to the Microsoft side less and less as time passes. You can get to
the Windows partition from the Linux side for data, pictures, music
and stuff but you can't easily run any Windows programs. I haven't
yet found a way to get to the Linux side if you boot Windows, but I
haven't tried real hard, either.
--
Galen Hekhuis ghekhuis@earthlink.net
"Mistakes were made"

Al Wells wrote:

> On May 7, 11:29 pm, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
> <Pop...@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:
>
>
>> OUTLOOK is horrifying.
>
>
> I feel your pain. We have Outlook in work and it sucks.
>
> At home I use Eudora for email and Gravity for NG's.
>
>
>
I'm using NetScape 7.2 for newsreader, love it. Do NOT try to upgrade to
8.x as that is a browser only. The only problem with NS is that you have
to periodically go in to the "inbox" files and manually empty them as
not all email actually deletes, and the reader chokes.

Agent is great for downloading binaries (music & porn) but sucks as a
newsreader, imho. Firefox is good for browsing.

A big problem is that no one writes anything for anything but Microsoft
anymore, ya have to keep IE as a backup.

m

"Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in
message news:133vrk2k1i20i77@news.supernews.com...

> OE does not seem to be on the machine anywhere.
>
> I wonder if it can be downloaded?
>
> I know you can get upgrades for it.
>
> OUTLOOK is horrifying.

I think Outlook Expess is embedded in Microsoft Office.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Try it. I *never* use IE any more.

XP and Vista are the Devils seed.