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Outlook Express 6
I am running Win XP Pro and OE6
Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows Mail in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Thanks Roger -- Roger |
Outlook Express 6
Windows Mail replaces OE in Vista.
Windows Mail is not available to those running WinXP. All OE development was stopped by executive fiat in June 2006. While security-related updates for OE running in WinXP SP3 (only) will continue until April 2014, there will be not new versions of or features added to OE. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 www.banthecheck.com rogeepete wrote: I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. |
Outlook Express 6
Windows Mail replaces OE in Vista.
Windows Mail is not available to those running WinXP. All OE development was stopped by executive fiat in June 2006. While security-related updates for OE running in WinXP SP3 (only) will continue until April 2014, there will be not new versions of or features added to OE. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 www.banthecheck.com rogeepete wrote: I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. |
Outlook Express 6
You may be confusing Windows Mail, (Vista only), with Windows Live Mail,
(XP, Vista and Windows 7). Should you switch? That's up to you. OE will be covered by security updates only in XP/SP3 until April, 2014. I'm sticking with it on my XP machine. If you want to get your feet wet with WLMail, you can run it side-by-side with OE on your XP machine. All received messages can be downloaded to both e-mail clients. Windows Live Mail (Overview & Features): http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview In OE and WLMail: Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: Leave a copy of messages on the server. In either OE or WLMail, check to Delete messages after X days to satisfy your allotted space you get from your server. Make it long enough so you can download to each program. Note: Sent messages will only be in the Sent Items folder for the e-mail client you used to send. Also note that WLMail will become your default e-mail client when you set it up. If you want OE to be the default: Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults | Custom + Down Arrow | Select the radio button for Outlook Express. Make OE the default e-mail client: http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx For future WLMail questions: Windows Live Mail [Desktop] Newsgroup. In your newsreader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop On the Web: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...mail .desktop -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "rogeepete" wrote in message ... I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Thanks Roger -- Roger |
Outlook Express 6
You may be confusing Windows Mail, (Vista only), with Windows Live Mail,
(XP, Vista and Windows 7). Should you switch? That's up to you. OE will be covered by security updates only in XP/SP3 until April, 2014. I'm sticking with it on my XP machine. If you want to get your feet wet with WLMail, you can run it side-by-side with OE on your XP machine. All received messages can be downloaded to both e-mail clients. Windows Live Mail (Overview & Features): http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview In OE and WLMail: Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: Leave a copy of messages on the server. In either OE or WLMail, check to Delete messages after X days to satisfy your allotted space you get from your server. Make it long enough so you can download to each program. Note: Sent messages will only be in the Sent Items folder for the e-mail client you used to send. Also note that WLMail will become your default e-mail client when you set it up. If you want OE to be the default: Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults | Custom + Down Arrow | Select the radio button for Outlook Express. Make OE the default e-mail client: http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspx For future WLMail questions: Windows Live Mail [Desktop] Newsgroup. In your newsreader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop On the Web: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...mail .desktop -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "rogeepete" wrote in message ... I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Thanks Roger -- Roger |
Outlook Express 6
rogeepete wrote:
Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows Mail in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Windows Live Mail replaces Outlook Express (dead since 2006) and even Windows Vista's Windows Mail. To get WLM, go to: http://download.live.com/ Make sure to only pick the component(s) you want. After the install, decide if you want to keep the fluff that their installs always jam on your host (signin assistant and other foistware). To ask how to use WLM or problems with it, see its newsgroup: microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop What is currently not working in Outlook Express that makes you want to move away from it? Is it that you moved to IE8 and now have problems with OE6? Since OE6's development got arrested back in 2006 (probably back to 2002 except with some registry hacks supported in WinXP SP-2 in 2004 for a couple new options along with security updates up to 2006), any reliance it has on IE's libraries will become increasingly more tenuous with later versions of IE. Whether you should migrate (not upgrade) to a new e-mail client depends wholly on why you feel the need to migrate. Is the wheel squeaking? |
Outlook Express 6
rogeepete wrote:
Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows Mail in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Windows Live Mail replaces Outlook Express (dead since 2006) and even Windows Vista's Windows Mail. To get WLM, go to: http://download.live.com/ Make sure to only pick the component(s) you want. After the install, decide if you want to keep the fluff that their installs always jam on your host (signin assistant and other foistware). To ask how to use WLM or problems with it, see its newsgroup: microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop What is currently not working in Outlook Express that makes you want to move away from it? Is it that you moved to IE8 and now have problems with OE6? Since OE6's development got arrested back in 2006 (probably back to 2002 except with some registry hacks supported in WinXP SP-2 in 2004 for a couple new options along with security updates up to 2006), any reliance it has on IE's libraries will become increasingly more tenuous with later versions of IE. Whether you should migrate (not upgrade) to a new e-mail client depends wholly on why you feel the need to migrate. Is the wheel squeaking? |
Outlook Express 6
no. Stick with what works for you.
steve "rogeepete" wrote in message ... I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Thanks Roger -- Roger |
Outlook Express 6
no. Stick with what works for you.
steve "rogeepete" wrote in message ... I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Thanks Roger -- Roger |
Outlook Express 6
"rogeepete" wrote in message
I am running Win XP Pro and OE6 Should I upgrade to a later version (I think Microsoft calls it Windows Mail in Vista) I plan to stay with Win XP and not go to Vista. Thanks Roger No, it's not really necessary at all. OE6 will be around for a long time to come and IIRC will even be included in updates until around 2014. Albeit a few design flaws detractors like to point out, OE will serve you well for the lifetime of your current computer at least, and likely beyond. Even when support does stop, OE6 will still be rather robust and will continue to work just fine unless/until some major protocol change should happen and that's not very likely at least for the foreseeable future. HTH, Twayne` |
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