Outlook Express in Windows 7 ?

[arroma]

After reading the posts in "Opening OE6 files in Outlook10,"
does Windows 7 not include a version of Outlook Express?

I have XP right now, and I'm using OE6 for my email, so would
that be obsolete then? What kind of email does Windows 7
include, - does it do newsgroups, and is it compatible with OE6?
Thanks...

 

[arroma]

No, OE is history.

With all the other useless features OSs are bundles with,
they had to discontinue OE? What a visionary decision.

I would recommend that you install Thunderbird in XP...

I'll check that out... or perhaps I save the $99 bucks for
a Windows 7 upgrade and stay with XP. Thanks...

 

[Bruce Hagen]

With all the other useless features OSs are bundles with,
they had to discontinue OE? What a visionary decision.


I'll check that out... or perhaps I save the $99 bucks for
a Windows 7 upgrade and stay with XP. Thanks...

OE has been out of production since June, 2006 and there has never been a
standalone version. If you get Pro, Enterprise or Ultimate, you can use OE
in XP Mode in Win7.

How to use Outlook Express in Windows 7
http://www.oehelp.com/OEnWin7.aspx

 

[Good Guy]

With all the other useless features OSs are bundles with,
they had to discontinue OE? What a visionary decision.


I'll check that out... or perhaps I save the $99 bucks for
a Windows 7 upgrade and stay with XP. Thanks...

Don't waste your money to upgrade your current machine especially if it
is too old. The reason is you are not going to get drivers for Windows
7 for it and you will really hate Windows 7 if it isn't working properly
on your old system.

Go and buy a new machine and, if necessary, work in McDonald for 4
weekends to enable you to get a new powerful machine on which you will
have Windows 7 preloaded.

Good luck.

 

[arroma]

How to use Outlook Express in Windows 7

I used a 'Virtual PC' setup a few years ago for some Win98
applications, but didn't like it and subsequently uninstalled it again.

Don't waste your money to upgrade your current machine especially if it is
too old. The reason is you are not going to get drivers for Windows 7 for
it and you will really hate Windows 7 if it isn't working properly on your
old system.

My system has a 3.2 Gig processor, 4 Gig DDR3 memory, and 500 Gig HDD.
I think it should be able to handle Windows 7. I could always pop in more
memory.

Go and buy a new machine and, if necessary, work in McDonald for 4
weekends to enable you to get a new powerful machine on which you will
have Windows 7 preloaded.

Money isn't an issue, it's convenience. Everything works smooth and
trouble-free now. I really don't NEED Windows 7 right now -- I was just
thinking ahead for future compatibility and support.

Thanks everyone though...

 

[Good Guy]

My system has a 3.2 Gig processor, 4 Gig DDR3 memory, and 500 Gig HDD.
I think it should be able to handle Windows 7. I could always pop in more
memory.

You can download and try Windows 7 on your system for 120 days and then
see if you can get all the drivers for your system. 4 Months is enough
to try it out.

<http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24280.iso>

This link is Official from Microsoft as they use Digital River to
distribute their digital products.

The product is Windows 7 SP1 Professional (64 bit) English Version.

As far as I can see you have more than enough system resources to run
Windows 7. I am surprised that you are running 4GB on Windows XP 32
bit because it can't recognize full 4GB. Perhaps you have a trick which
we know nothing about. I remember somebody released a crack for 32 bit
machines to recognize more than 3GB of RAM but it didn't work for many
people and it created more problems on a perfectly good system.

Good luck.

 

[Good Guy]

You can download and try Windows 7 on your system for 120 days and then
see if you can get all the drivers for your system. 4 Months is enough
to try it out.

<http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24280.iso>

This link is Official from Microsoft as they use Digital River to
distribute their digital products.

The product is Windows 7 SP1 Professional (64 bit) English Version.

As far as I can see you have more than enough system resources to run
Windows 7. I am surprised that you are running 4GB on Windows XP 32
bit because it can't recognize full 4GB. Perhaps you have a trick which
we know nothing about. I remember somebody released a crack for 32 bit
machines to recognize more than 3GB of RAM but it didn't work for many
people and it created more problems on a perfectly good system.

Good luck.

This is the correct link for 64bit machine:
<http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59186.iso>

Note the Windows 7 .iso download links are derived from links that
were posted by Jan Krohn. This fix here should work on the other .isos
provided by Jan to get the other versions such as Ultimate, Home Premium
and Starter where only Professional is listed.

I got them from Dell website:
<http://en.community.dell.com/suppor...fficial-iso-download-links-digital-river.aspx>

Good luck.

 

[Nil]

I used a 'Virtual PC' setup a few years ago for some Win98
applications, but didn't like it and subsequently uninstalled it
again.

I'm sure you didn't like it. Virtual PC doesn't officially support
Windows 98. It can be installed, if you jump thorough a bunch of hoops,
but it runs slow as a dog. Pretty much unusable, in my experience.

 

[BillW50]

In Good Guy typed on Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:45:57 +0100:

Don't waste your money to upgrade your current machine especially if
it is too old. The reason is you are not going to get drivers for
Windows 7 for it and you will really hate Windows 7 if it isn't
working properly on your old system.

Go and buy a new machine and, if necessary, work in McDonald for 4
weekends to enable you to get a new powerful machine on which you will
have Windows 7 preloaded.

Good luck.

Oh I wouldn't say that. Why do you think I like Gateway M465 from 2006
for? Heck I have eight of them from that year alone. What is great about
them is that they all run XP without any problems. And they are Vista
Ready. And they also run Windows 7 and Windows 8 too.

For example, you can buy these coming off of lease all day long for 50
bucks apiece (some look like they just came out of the box). And they
run and have drivers for Windows 2000 and all the way up to Windows 8. I
never tried Windows 98 on one, but there are drivers for that too for
these machines. 2006 was a very good year for cross Windows
compatibility machines. ;-)

 

[BillW50]

In arroma typed on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:53:04 -0400:

Money isn't an issue, it's convenience. Everything works smooth and
trouble-free now. I really don't NEED Windows 7 right now -- I was
just thinking ahead for future compatibility and support.

Thanks everyone though...

I run XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 all of the time. And I must admit, XP
still does everything that I need and want. Plus it is the more
enjoyable one out of the lot. ;-)

 

[choro]

In arroma typed on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:53:04 -0400:

I run XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 all of the time. And I must admit, XP
still does everything that I need and want. Plus it is the more
enjoyable one out of the lot. ;-)

But with XP you can't have the xtra large icons (thumbnails) of image
files as you can in Win7. Or am I wrong?
And this ability to view xtra large image thumbnails is very important
with image files. This is what I miss when I go on my XP machine.--
choro
*****

 

[BillW50]

In choro typed on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:59:42 +0100:

But with XP you can't have the xtra large icons (thumbnails) of image
files as you can in Win7. Or am I wrong?
And this ability to view xtra large image thumbnails is very important
with image files. This is what I miss when I go on my XP machine.--
choro
*****

You can enlarge them up to 7 times larger than the default. I know of
two ways to do this.

1) With TweakUI -> Explorer -> Thumbnails

2) Through the registry at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

ThumbnailSize from 32 to 256 (decimal) and ThumbnailQuality from 32 to
100. ThumbnailSize is set to 96 by default. Changing the registry, you
must reboot to have the changes take effect. With TweakUI, you don't
have to reboot.

 

[KCB]

But with XP you can't have the xtra large icons (thumbnails) of image
files as you can in Win7. Or am I wrong?
And this ability to view xtra large image thumbnails is very important
with image files. This is what I miss when I go on my XP machine.--
choro
*****

You can change thumbnail size in Windows XP, through the registry.
http://teamtutorials.com/windows-tutorials/changing-thumbnail-size-in-windows-xp

 

[choro]

In choro typed on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:59:42 +0100:

You can enlarge them up to 7 times larger than the default. I know of
two ways to do this.

1) With TweakUI -> Explorer -> Thumbnails

2) Through the registry at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

ThumbnailSize from 32 to 256 (decimal) and ThumbnailQuality from 32 to
100. ThumbnailSize is set to 96 by default. Changing the registry, you
must reboot to have the changes take effect. With TweakUI, you don't
have to reboot.

Thanx to both you and KCB.--
choro
*****