Saucy Lemon

Right .. except that MS Office Outlook has normally used Outlook Express as
its newsreader. It would launch OE with the /outnews swtich:

msimn.exe /outnews

making it the MS Office Outlook newsread (so to speak).

But you can do similarly in such a way as to make Outlook Express act like a
stand-alone newsreader (no email inbox etc.), thusly:

msimn.exe /newsonly

Now, with Windows Mail, the same swtiches work. Only the executable is:

WinMail.exe

so, one could create a short cut such as the following:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe /newsonly"

and have Windows Mail run as a news reader only. You could name the shortcut
"Windows News" or somesuch.

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Saucy Lemon
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"Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
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> "Saucy Lemon" <guidREMOVEsaucy@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Windows Mail does support the /newsonly and the /outnews swtiches, so you
>> can operate it as a stand-alone newsreader-only program [or as MS
>> Office's Outlook's newsreader program] instead of as an email program.
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> Outlook (in any release year) doesn't function as a newsreader, nor does
> it have a newsreading program, never has. You can only have Outlook, if
> set up as such, open "News (a newsreader)" and then it will open Windows
> mail (or OE in previous OSes) to use a newsreader. But why do that when
> one can just simply open WM?