re: Help with outlook express
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 3:03 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
As you never activated Outlook Express, you most likely have not updated it at
the Microsoft Update site and may not have updated Internet Explorer 6.0 service
pack 2.
Go to the Windows Update site (in IE click Tools - Windows Update) and install
the Critical updated and all the Security updates. (Don't install the .Net or Media
Player updates.) All of this will take a little time and you will have to reboot
the system several times. But keep at it until you have most of them done.
If you have not installed IE 6 sp2, then when you do that will also update your
old Outlook Express. Let it do so. This should update Outlook Express with all of
the Security fixes and the last version of it.
If you already have IE 6 sp2 installed, then to a REPAIR of IE. This might fix
any problems with Outlook Express at the same time.
To REPAIR IE 6.0, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove icon, and select (highlight)
the entry for "Microsoft Internet Explorer ... and Internet Tools" and then click
the Add/Remove button at the bottom of the window. On the options window, select
the "Repair Internet Explorer" option and click OK. When it is done reboot the system.
You do not have to use Outlook Express as there are better e-mail client programs.
Outlook is not that secure and is what many of the Virus/Worm/Trojans use to get
into your system. (With DSL you really need a good Anti-Virus program installed and
some kind of Firewall. Firewall software is good, but slows the system down some.
With broadband hooked up through the Ethernet port, I prefer getting a low cost router
with built in firewall.) An example of a better e-mail client and is a good safe
e-mail application program like Mozilla's Thundorbird v1.5.
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