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Re: most reliable newsreader
TS Mathews wrote:
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> "Leen" <ms_windows_2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ONJ4WrajHHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
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>> "TS Mathews" <NOSPAMtsm1945@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:AQl_h.1061$Vi6.803@edtnps82...
>>> I've just converted to Vista and have Outlook setup and working fine.
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>> Outlook? Ar Outlook Express (which is called Windows Mail). It looks
>> like the "outlook" moniker still leads to confusion ;-)
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> 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.
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> I do NOTuse Outlook Express in Vista...simply stated it can't be done.
> I use OUTLOOK--part of the Microsoft Office package.
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> 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.
>
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>>> 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.
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>> What kind of?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
>
>
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>>> 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?
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>> Outlook has no Newsreader capabilities (unless using a 3rd party tool)
>> What means "... as we formely did" ?
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>>> As you can see, I've posted this on all three groups as I'm not sure
>>> who among you might have the answer.
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>> I'm not sure either since the Q's are not really clear(enough).
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>> Have a nice day!
>>
>> --
>> Leen
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
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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.
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