TS Mathews wrote:

"Leen" wrote in message
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"TS Mathews" wrote in message
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I've just converted to Vista and have Outlook setup and working fine.

Outlook? Ar Outlook Express (which is called Windows Mail). It looks
like the "outlook" moniker still leads to confusion ;-)

Frankly, I'm amazed that anyone would not have been able to understand
my post. I very specifically alluded to both the fact that I used to
use Outlook Express and that I launched it from the "go" command in
Outlook and I specifically mentioned Windows Mail as that's the program
which seems rather bug riddled now that I'm using Vista.

I do NOTuse Outlook Express in Vista...simply stated it can't be done.
I use OUTLOOK--part of the Microsoft Office package.

The question, I thought, was VERY simple. If one installs Windows Live
Mail Desktop, can it be configured in some way so that it launches under
a command within Outlook as Windows Mail does now and Outlook Express
did in the past.


Using Windows Vista Mail seems to get lots of errors and I'm
wondering if using Live Desktop Mail as my newsreader would work better.

What kind of?

Any and every time I've hit "catch up" the program has failed and given
me the prompt to the effect, "I can restart or go to the internet to try
to find a solution." Restarting simply takes me back to where I was
with the additional prompt beforehand for me to setup an e -mail account.

It didn't happen once, or on occasion, it happened each and every time I
moved to a new newsgroup until, after the sixth time, I decided that if
it didn't work any better than that, I'd try Windows Live Mail Desktop.

I then posted my question in Outlook as it may be an "Outlook
configurable" setup to be able to launch WLMD. I also posted in Windows
Mail thinking there may be some sort of patch which corrects the problem
causing the never ending failure when "catching up." Finally, I also
posted to WLMD as it seems logical that people using it may also be
using Outlook and either know how to make the two interoperate or have
the knowledge that it cannot be done.



If so, is it possible to launch it from within Outlook in much the
same way as we formerly did Outlook Express and currently do Windows
Vista Mail?

Outlook has no Newsreader capabilities (unless using a 3rd party tool)
What means "... as we formely did" ?

As you can see, I've posted this on all three groups as I'm not sure
who among you might have the answer.

I'm not sure either since the Q's are not really clear(enough).

Have a nice day!

--
Leen



Tim




Both work together on this machine (Vista 64) and on Vista 32 but both
are slow and unreliable compared to Thunderbird.

Outlook Express was also considerably slower. It's obviously not a
server issue since it's the same server, but perhaps to do with the way
some of the data is accessed or the database model used by MS.

As for setting it as default I think that should be possible but can't
give a definite answer, sorry.