Help - How do I setup these in XP Pro ?

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I am using XP Pro. & Outlook Express 6.00.2900...... in my Laptop.

A)
As I right click the 'Start',
Then click 'Properties'
Then click 'Customize' in group 'Start Menu', I get 'Customize Start Menu'.
Under 'General', I have 'Show on Start Menu', with two selections,
As I check in for,

1. Internet - I have one selection, 'Internet Explorer', although I use MSN Explorer also
2. E-mail - I have one selection only , i.e., 'Microsoft Outlook', but I use Outlook Express

as my default E-mail carrier. Is there a way to include or make a change so that I can include
my e-mail as 'Outlook Express', rather than 'Microsoft Outlook'.

B)
How do I setup the Internet Explorer, so that under 'Tools', 'Mail and News', 'Read Mail',
I can open 'Outlook Express' rather than 'Microsoft Outlook', which I don't use at all.

Appreciate suggestions and help.

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A) Yes I do see the drop box, but with only one selection in each drop box.
I am using the latest Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
My home PC does show multiple selections on each drop box.

B) Within Explorer, when I click on 'Read News', it does open 'Microsoft Outlook Newsreader'
But, when I click on 'Read Mail', the 'Microsoft Outlook' opens rather than 'Outlook Express'



|"» mrtee «" <hingelicker$@new.rr.com> wrote in message news:%|23rfRZYK5EHA.2964@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
|A)
| 1. You say that there is no drop box to select?
| 2. " " " " " " " " " " ?
|B)
| The title on the header is Microsoft Outlook Newsreader, it is Outlook Express in /outnews mode. Outlook is not a
|newsreader, Outlook Express is and that is what you are reading news in.
|
|From your header:
|X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
|X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
|
|--
|Just my 2¢ worth,
| Jeff
|__________In response to__________
|"Okie Noah" <okie_noah@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%|23omZbNK5EHA.1120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
|I am using XP Pro. & Outlook Express 6.00.2900...... in my Laptop.
|
| A)
| As I right click the 'Start',
| Then click 'Properties'
| Then click 'Customize' in group 'Start Menu', I get 'Customize Start Menu'.
| Under 'General', I have 'Show on Start Menu', with two selections,
| As I check in for,
|
| 1. Internet - I have one selection, 'Internet Explorer', although I use MSN Explorer also
| 2. E-mail - I have one selection only , i.e., 'Microsoft Outlook', but I use Outlook Express
|
| as my default E-mail carrier. Is there a way to include or make a change so that I can include
| my e-mail as 'Outlook Express', rather than 'Microsoft Outlook'.
|
| B)
| How do I setup the Internet Explorer, so that under 'Tools', 'Mail and News', 'Read Mail',
| I can open 'Outlook Express' rather than 'Microsoft Outlook', which I don't use at all.
|
| Appreciate suggestions and help.
|
|
|
|

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By setting OE as default mail and news reader
the problem was fixed both in OE and IE.

Thank you so much.



"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message news:%23f$En3K5EHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| "Okie Noah" <okie_noah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:u90sDlK5EHA.3504@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl
| > A) Yes I do see the drop box, but with only one selection in each
| > drop box. I am using the latest Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
| > (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) My home PC does show multiple
| > selections on each drop box.
| >
| > B) Within Explorer, when I click on 'Read News', it does open
| > 'Microsoft Outlook Newsreader' But, when I click on 'Read Mail',
| > the 'Microsoft Outlook' opens rather than 'Outlook Express'
| >
| >
| >
| >> "» mrtee «" <hingelicker$@new.rr.com> wrote in message
| >> news:%|23rfRZYK5EHA.2964@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| >> A)
| >> 1. You say that there is no drop box to select?
| >> 2. " " " " " " " " " " ?
| >> B)
| >> The title on the header is Microsoft Outlook Newsreader, it is
| >> Outlook Express in /outnews mode. Outlook is not a newsreader,
| >> Outlook Express is and that is what you are reading news in.
| >>
| >> From your header:
| >> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
| >> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
| >>
| >> --
| >> Just my 2¢ worth,
| >> Jeff
| >> __________In response to__________
| >> "Okie Noah" <okie_noah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| >> news:%|23omZbNK5EHA.1120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| >> I am using XP Pro. & Outlook Express 6.00.2900...... in my Laptop.
| >>
| >> A)
| >> As I right click the 'Start',
| >> Then click 'Properties'
| >> Then click 'Customize' in group 'Start Menu', I get 'Customize Start
| >> Menu'.
| >> Under 'General', I have 'Show on Start Menu', with two selections,
| >> As I check in for,
| >>
| >> 1. Internet - I have one selection, 'Internet Explorer',
| >> although I use MSN Explorer also
| >> 2. E-mail - I have one selection only , i.e., 'Microsoft
| >> Outlook', but I use Outlook Express
| >>
| >> as my default E-mail carrier. Is there a way to include or make a
| >> change so that I can include
| >> my e-mail as 'Outlook Express', rather than 'Microsoft Outlook'.
| >>
| >> B)
| >> How do I setup the Internet Explorer, so that under 'Tools', 'Mail
| >> and News', 'Read Mail',
| >> I can open 'Outlook Express' rather than 'Microsoft Outlook', which
| >> I don't use at all.
| >>
| >> Appreciate suggestions and help.
|
| From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/defaultl.htm
|
| Go to Start | Run and type this command, with the double quotes and spaces:
|
| "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /reg
|
| and then make sure that OE is selected as the default mail program in both
| IE and OE.
|
| If that isn't enough, see this article:
| "Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default:
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098
|
| You might also want to try this:
|
| Restores OE to the E-mail clients list in Internet Options
| http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/oe_client.htm
|
| To set Outlook as the default mail client,- Go to Start, Run - Type in the
| following with quotation marks and press OK
| "C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /checkclient
| For more information on Outlook see:
| http://www.slipstick.com/config/defaultmailer.htm
|
| --
| Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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