Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, MSN Explorer. I know this is stupid
question, but what exactly is the function of each? I never seem to get
just the Internet Explorer, from the start menu or otherwise. I get my
folders displayed in Windows Explorer. I know Internet Explorer is a
Browser, but I always seem to get MSN Explorer when clicking on the big
Blue E, are they the same thing? Please excuse my ignorance, but this
has been bugging me for quite some time. TIA

Hi, Rocky.

Microsoft seems especially talented at choosing confusing-similar names,
don't they. :^{ This is almost as bad as Microsoft Messenger, MSN
Messenger and Windows Messenger - all of which are quite different programs.
Or Outlook and Outlook Express - which also are quite different, although
some of their functions overlap.

Windows Explorer is what we usually think of as the Directory. It just
lists all the files on our hard (or floppy) drive.

Internet Explorer is Microsoft's Web Browser. It's what most of us use to
surf the net. Other browsers are available from other suppliers, of course,
such as Netscape, AOL and many others. You appear to be using WebTV; I
don't have any experience with that, so I don't know if it uses IE or not.
Outlook Express, Microsoft's news reader, is an integral part of IE. (I use
IE/OE 6, which are an integral part of WinXP.)

MSN Explorer? I'm not familiar with that at all, but you can read about it
at:
http://www.download.com/3000-2104-10119669.html

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP

"Rocky 2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1281-40DC13A8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, MSN Explorer. I know this is stupid
> question, but what exactly is the function of each? I never seem to get
> just the Internet Explorer, from the start menu or otherwise. I get my
> folders displayed in Windows Explorer. I know Internet Explorer is a
> Browser, but I always seem to get MSN Explorer when clicking on the big
> Blue E, are they the same thing? Please excuse my ignorance, but this
> has been bugging me for quite some time. TIA

Thanks for that info. I also have a pc, and thats where that MSN
Explorer comes in. Yes Microsoft can make things allot easier if they
would name some of their programs differently. I wonder just how much
more intelligence it would take. It can be very confusing for new people
just starting out on our cpu. Thanks again. I did send your reply along
to the pc to check out.