Lost my News icon

[Howard M. Rensin]

I removed my 'News' icon from the Standard Bar in my Outlook 2003 SP1 and
now I can not find it in the Go command list or anywhere else. Any idea on
how to restore it?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

To get the News command back, go back to the Programs tab in Control Panel |
Internet Options and change the default newsreader to Outlook Express. If
OE prompts you to make it your default newsreader the next time you launch
it, clear the "Always perform this check..." box and then click the No
button.

You may need to reset the Menu Bar and/or restart Outlook and/or reboot your
machine in order to complete the process. Not everyone is reporting success
with this method, but try it and see what happens. If all else fails, you
can always create a desktop shortcut to Outlook Express and include the
/outnews switch -- that gives you the same result as accessing the
newsreader via the News command in Outlook.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Howard M. Rensin
asked:

| I removed my 'News' icon from the Standard Bar in my Outlook 2003 SP1
| and now I can not find it in the Go command list or anywhere else.
| Any idea on how to restore it?

 

[Howard M. Rensin]

Your below advice has worked for the time being. I say 'for the time being'
only because I have 'fixed' it before and it has not held. I think rebooting
the computer both after Detect & Repair as well as the other fix you
described below is important. Before I did that and after I found the News
icon, it was not launching the Outlook Express program but was opening a
folder with some .dll files in it that appeared to have nothing to do with
OE. A cold boot seemed to fix the problem. I tend to keep my machine on for
days at a time and sometimes things happen internally that only a cold boot
will reset. Just thought I would pass that back along with my thanks.
Howard