Frontpage not with XP home

[Guest]

I've been reading that A scaled down version of Frontpage doesn't come with
XP as with 98. However I found a Frontpage folder in the program files
list. Not in the start menu, but by navigating through the harddrive in My
Computer. When I click on it, it opens up into another folder that says
Ver. 3. When I click on that it open that folder which contain absolutely
nothing. Why is that there if I don't have frontpage? I installed XP Home
as a clean install from an XP Upgrade disk. I'm wondering if that's there
just incase if you use the upgrade option and you had Frontpage previously
installed, it would have a place to support frontpage in the upgrade?

Thank You
Roger

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Roger,

I believe it's there for application compatibility. As you said, a scaled
down version of Frontpage was shipped with Windows at one point. I believe
that some applications actually look for that folder for one reason or
another. By placing the folder there, whatever application(s) that depended
on it seems to work again.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

In Windows 98, if you had installed a version of IE above 4, you could of
download FrontPage Express. It disappeared with IE 5.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

It's simply a folder that has to do with the O/S. FP Express does not come
with Windows XP, is no longer available from MS, and is no longer supported.

It was a stripped down version of FP 97 editor only, and is completely
obsolete and unsecure.

Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| I've been reading that A scaled down version of Frontpage doesn't come
with
| XP as with 98. However I found a Frontpage folder in the program files
| list. Not in the start menu, but by navigating through the harddrive in
My
| Computer. When I click on it, it opens up into another folder that says
| Ver. 3. When I click on that it open that folder which contain absolutely
| nothing. Why is that there if I don't have frontpage? I installed XP
Home
| as a clean install from an XP Upgrade disk. I'm wondering if that's there
| just incase if you use the upgrade option and you had Frontpage previously
| installed, it would have a place to support frontpage in the upgrade?
|
| Thank You
| Roger

 

[FrankV]

The FP Express can be installed in XP without any problems if you need it.
Microsoft doesn't have a download for it any more but run a search and you
will find a couple of webs where you can download this.

Frank

 

[FrankV]

Except it is free and you can create simple web pages with this in XP.

Frank

 

[Guest]

I'm assuming by the responses here, that even if I did have what I thought I
was talking about....It wouldn't be compareable to Dreamweaver 3?? I was
under the understanding that it was capable of doing as much or more than
dreamweaver 3. I'm quickly seeing that I was apparently misled, huh?? Guess
it would be my best bet just to continue trying to teach myself how to use
Fireworks and Dreamweaver? Being that I'm wanting to do more than just
simple web pages. Let me know if i'm still talking out of my but!!

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Well you can buy FrontPage 2003, which is a heck of a lot more powerful
than the FrontPage Express. But if you've got Dreamweaver already
installed and have started to work with that, keep going.

Bill

I'm assuming by the responses here, that even if I did have what I
thought I
was talking about....It wouldn't be compareable to Dreamweaver 3?? I
was
under the understanding that it was capable of doing as much or more
than
dreamweaver 3. I'm quickly seeing that I was apparently misled, huh??
Guess
it would be my best bet just to continue trying to teach myself how to
use
Fireworks and Dreamweaver? Being that I'm wanting to do more than just
simple web pages. Let me know if i'm still talking out of my but!!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help!! That's kind of what I thought , I was just looking for
some backup opinions!!

Thank You
Roger