"Haddox" <Haddox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F246C7BB-7548-41A1-BA42-D44F29889AF3@microsoft.com...
>I am running XP SP3. I was running IE 7 and using the Read Mail button to
> access Outlook Express for my e-mail. I upgraded yesterday to IE 8 and now
> the Read Mail button doesn't do anything.

> How do I access OE?


If you really need to drag a shortcut from your Start menu
or Quick Launch tray (etc.) to %USERPROFILE%\Favorites\Links
Then you can use it as a button in your Favorites Bar (aka Links bar).

Also, note if you already do have such shortcuts that you could
make them universally accessible by assigning shortcut keystrokes
for them. Similarly, if you have a specialized keyboard or mouse
you may also find that you can program a key or button to launch OE
from *anywhere* not just from an IE window. For example on my
keyboard I just press Mail.


BTW I reported this symptom in IE8b2 and it got Closed: No Repro.
Here's a specific observation I made in my incident report (387782)

<quote>
IE8b2 + XPsp3. Clicking Read Mail button (for OE) does nothing.

ProcMon shows that this is the last instance of the word Mail

RegOpenKey HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail\\shell\Open\command INVALID PARAMETER Desired Access: Query Value

One apparent error from that is it is missing a level of indexing.
E.g. I suspect it should be looking for that value (Default) here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Outlook Express\shell\open\command

</quote>


Is that your case too?


>
> Thanks, Haddox


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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