Re: no download of OEx 6

Crossposted to Windows Mail newsgroup.

Windows Mail is the default Mail Client in Vista, not Outlook Express.
(Outlook Express cannot be installed in Vista.)

Installing Windows Live Mail makes it your default Mail Client in Vista (and
WinXP).

You should be able to make Windows Mail the default again via Set Program
Access and Defaults.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


pmh wrote:
> I've been trying to get OEx back for more than a week. When I installed
> Live Mail on my XP laptop, the OEx program disappeared. Live Mail is NOT
> as good as OEx. And, although Live Mail deleted the OEx address book
> (*.WAB), Live Mail won't import an older, backed-up version of the WAB
> file, which I found and copied out of my backups.
>
> Somehow Live Mail did correctly take the three mail accounts that I had
> set
> up in OEx; MSN, Hotmail, and Gmail. But no addresses.
>
> I would dearly love to ditch Live Mail and get OEx back. But, I could
> only
> find OEx downloadable part of IEx, which I downloaded (~500k startup prog)
> and tried to run, but got an error saying my current IEx is way newer than
> the downloaded IEx; so no way to reinstall OEx. I'm am totally hosed.
>
> IMHO, MS and Live is a huge step backwards from OEx. And, for almost two
> weeks, I can find no way to get back to where I was. I've gotten several
> emails back from the MS crew that answers your questions/complaints --
> they
> always aim me at some links to some other problems, and some links to some
> other Windows update which will solve the problem. Not.
>
> -pmh
> ---------
> "Michael Santovec" wrote:
>> Outlook Express will not run on Vista.
>> In any case, Microsoft is working on a new mail program (Windows Live
>> Mail) which will be the successor for both Outlook Express and Windows
>> Mail. It's currently in Beta testing.
>> Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
>> "apachecav" <apachecav@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5D5526D3-09AA-4D61-B492-B94D1C11E571@microsoft.com...
>>> where can I download a copy of outlook express 6.... I really don't
>>> like the
>>> microsoft mail on this new vista machine... can anyone point me in the
>>> right
>>> direction? thanks