Thank you, have now done that and all is working with the shortcut on the
desktop. That is what I had to do a couple of weeks ago when Wanadoo
disconnected me.
I shall try and get my son to follow your suggestions as he knows an awful
lot more about computers than I do.




"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
...
I have no idea why you did what you did but the easiest way out of the
mess
you have is to place a shortcut "msimn.exe /outnews" on the desktop. This
will open OE in newsreader only form. (No quotes)

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Stewart asked:

| Milly, I tried your suggestion but got into an awful mess, it did not
| work; The default newsreader in Internet Exp;lorer was already
| Outlook Express and it is NOT the default newsreader.
| I dragged the Outlook Express shortcut icon into the folder "News" in
| Outlook and the system crashed. I had to reinstall Office 2003.
| Now to get to the newsgroups I go to Outlook, then News, then open the
| folder 1033 and then click on the Outlook Express shortcut icon in
| that folder.
| I suppose I could drag the shortcut for Outlook Express back onto my
| desktop but am worried in case it crashes again.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote in message
| ...
|| To get the News command back, go back to the Programs tab in Control
|| Panel
||
|| Internet Options and change the default newsreader to Outlook
|| Express. If OE prompts you to make it your default newsreader the
|| next time you launch it, clear the "Always perform this check..."
|| box and then click the No button.
||
|| You may need to reset the Menu Bar and/or restart Outlook and/or
|| reboot your machine in order to complete the process. Not everyone
|| is reporting success with this method, but try it and see what
|| happens. If all else fails, you can always create a desktop
|| shortcut to Outlook Express and include the /outnews switch -- that
|| gives you the same result as accessing the newsreader via the News
|| command in Outlook.
||
|| By the way, you can subscribe directly to the Microsoft news groups
|| using msnews.microsoft.com for the server - no authentication
|| required.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Stewart asked:
||
||| Until 3 weeks ago I could access Outlook Express and so these
||| newsgroups through the news command in Outlook.
||| It is Outlook that I use for my emails etc..
||| Without warning Wanadoo disconnected their server to the newsgroups
||| and left us with none so I had to use an independent. I am now with
||| 2CO.COM operating through Outlook Express but this time as a
||| shortcut on my desktop. I want to restore access to Outlook Express
||| through Outlook but am unable to do so.
||| When Wanadoo disconnected; my news folder in Outlook changed to
||| folder 1033 and it has nothing at all to do with newsgroups, it even
||| contains links to autoroute etc..
||| Internet Explorer is properly set up to access Outlook Express as
||| the newsgroup reader.
||| In Outlook when I try to go from Tools to Customise and so to the
||| Command setting and News I find that there is no News item in the
||| folder so I cannot change it that way.
||| Does anyone know how I can reconnect Outlook Express as the
||| newsreader through "News" in Outlook?
||| Thank you.