Tom

That is not what you said; you made it sound as if Outlook can be used as a
newsreader, which it certainly cannot, you specifically stated "or as MS
Office's Outlook's newsreader program", of which it doesn't exist in
Outlook. No
matter how you switch it, you open the Windows Mail executable, not Outlook.
If you open it through Outlook, it opens Winmail.exe no matter.

"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:
>
> "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)
>
>
>
> "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?
>