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Outlook Express 6

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eTTan

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Mar 1, 2001
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Hi all

I have upgraded my Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP Professional and the problem is that it has installed Internet Explorer 6 but not Outlook Express 6 i have Outlook Express 5 and i tried to update Internet Explorer 6 but i still have Outlook Express 5.

Does anyone have any ideas??

/eMaCs
 
Ideas only nothing positive.

Here are some snippets from off the web that might give you some clues. A lot of these mention IE6 or IE6 and OE6, see if anything helps.

Microsoft has posted a generic registry-edit workaround at

But users report that the Microsoft-sanctioned technique doesn't always
work, and have found other workarounds. You'll have to do some poking
around among the results returned by this link in order to find a
solution that matches your specific situation (there's no universal
answer, alas).


How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows XP (Q318378)





(What if you changed the following to install OE6?)

To Reinstall IE6:

1) Insert the Win XP CD

2) Open Start / Run and type:
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:\windows\inf\ie.inf

Press ENTER
 
Thanks!!!

Now i got OE6.. :D

/eMaCs
 
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