outlook express on windows vista

[Stephen Larivee]

Is it possible to download and install Outlook Express on a Vista computer?
I do not have Vista yet but would like to use my old email program, Outlook
Express, on my new Vista machine when it arrives.

 

[Richie Hardwick]

Is it possible to download and install Outlook Express on a Vista computer?
I do not have Vista yet but would like to use my old email program, Outlook
Express, on my new Vista machine when it arrives.

Impossible. With Vista you get Windows Mail.

Richie Hardwick

 

[philo]

Impossible. With Vista you get Windows Mail.

Richie Hardwick

Which is basically just Outlook Express with a new name

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is it possible to download and install Outlook Express on a Vista computer?

No.


I do not have Vista yet but would like to use my old email program, Outlook
Express, on my new Vista machine when it arrives.

Vista comes with the program "Windows Mail," Windows Mail is
essentially nothing more than a new version of Outlook Express, with a
new name.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Just about, except for the loss of identies.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Richie Hardwick]

Is it possible to download and install Outlook Express on a Vista computer?
I do not have Vista yet but would like to use my old email program, Outlook
Express, on my new Vista machine when it arrives.

I forgot to menion: check out Windows LIVE Mail. It's the next
generation of Windows Mail/OE.

Richie Hardwick

 

[Stephen Larivee]

Thanks for all the responses. I guess I will have to say goodbye to OE and
try Mail.
Thanks again.

 

[John Barnes]

If you have hotmail accounts you will lose the ability to access them with
Mail. You can solve that by installing Windows Live Mail which accesses
hotmail.

 

[Ian D]

Just about, except for the loss of identies.

Which is something I miss. In XP Pro I have separate
mutually exclusive identities for email and usenet, to
prevent inadertently exposing my email address to
the newsgroups. I did that once and had to change
my email address to escape the onslaught of spam.

 

[Gordon]

Which is something I miss. In XP Pro I have separate
mutually exclusive identities for email and usenet, to
prevent inadertently exposing my email address to
the newsgroups.

Why bother? When you set up the newsgroup account just use the
munged/throwaway email address....