XP SP2 and MSN Mail

[Emcee]

The Level 3 MSN techs have no solution for this problem:
after installing SP2 (RC2), when I click on "Mail& More"
in MSN Explorer, the page downloads and opens in notepad
in an unreadable form. Under my wife's account, there is
no problem, so I suspect it is not an SP2 problem, but
rather some other problem--file association or a registry
key. Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks,

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

If this started after installing SP 2 RC 2, it seems to be an SP 2
issue.
Since SP 2 is not released and all the prerelease versions such as RC
2 are not supported by Microsoft I am surprised you got as far as you
did with MSN support.
Did you try the SP 2 newsgroups referenced on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm

Otherwise you should take this to an MSN newsgroup:
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

If you uninstall the unsupported release candidate, does the problem go
away?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[SteveL]

Hello Emcee,
Try this, logon as admin, go to windows explorer fing your
profile under docs & settings and rename it, DO NOT DELETE
IT. Logoff admin, then back on as yourself, this will re-
create your profile and should fix your issue, if it does
then go to the renamed profile and copy all of your data
to your new profile, I would not delete the old profile
for a while until you make sure you have all of your data.
Warning some programs may have to be re-installed.

Hope this helps

 

[Plato]

The Level 3 MSN techs have no solution for this problem:
after installing SP2 (RC2), when I click on "Mail& More"
in MSN Explorer, the page downloads and opens in notepad
in an unreadable form. Under my wife's account, there is

Easy:


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