Ken Gardner

This is a great tip. Thanks for posting it.!

"Saucy Lemon" <guidREMOVEsaucy@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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:
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> "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.
>
> --
>
> Saucy Lemon
> (For email, remove the caps in address)
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>
>
> "Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
> news:6ZWdndTd2twGr07YnZ2dnUVZ_ompnZ2d@insightbb.com...
>>
>> "Saucy Lemon" <guidREMOVEsaucy@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:uX4NTjEUHHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>