Uninstalling outlook express 5

I cancelled my Comcast internet access quite a while ago
but my Outlook Express still opens up under Comcast. How
can I uninstall Outlook Express 5 and install Outlook
Express 6?

Installing Outlook Express has nothing to do with whether you use Comcast
or not. If you no longer wish to access a mail account at Comcast
remove/delete that account. Tools | Account | Mail, select unwanted
account and then click Remove.

If you are still using Outlook Express 5.5 (Win Me does not run OE5) then
this can be updated in the same way as much else - by visiting the Windows
Update site (http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/). Note though that
you will first need to update IE5.5 to IE6 before you can update to OE6
although in most cases the IE6 upgrade will automatically include that for
OE.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004]



Tom wrote:

I cancelled my Comcast internet access quite a while ago
but my Outlook Express still opens up under Comcast. How
can I uninstall Outlook Express 5 and install Outlook
Express 6?

-----Original Message-----
Installing Outlook Express has nothing to do with whether
you use Comcast
or not. If you no longer wish to access a mail account
at Comcast
remove/delete that account. Tools | Account | Mail,
select unwanted
account and then click Remove.

If you are still using Outlook Express 5.5 (Win Me does
not run OE5) then
this can be updated in the same way as much else - by
visiting the Windows
Update site (http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/).
Note though that
you will first need to update IE5.5 to IE6 before you can
update to OE6
although in most cases the IE6 upgrade will automatically
include that for
OE.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004]



Tom wrote:

I cancelled my Comcast internet access quite a while ago
but my Outlook Express still opens up under Comcast. How
can I uninstall Outlook Express 5 and install Outlook
Express 6?

.I never set up my Outlook Express account under Comcast
so I can't delete it. When I open up OE, it opens as
Outlook Express 5, presented by Comcast. I have IE6, but I
still can't remove OE5 and Install OE6. And OE5 does not
work for me.

It would help if you were to in future explain the actual problem
experienced which to those reading your post gave the impression that
Outlook Express was attempting to access an unwanted Comcast account
instead of which all you want to do is remove the Comcast branding from
the top of Outlook Express.

The branding makes no difference whatsoever to the operation of Outlook
Express. For details of how to remove the branding from both Outlook
Express and Internet Explorer see
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#debrand although you should
note that this involves working with the registry and should only be
undertaken if you fully understand the implications of what you are doing
and the possible problems you might encounter and can cause but deleting
or amending the wrong key or value..

Again if you didn't read my original message, you do not need to uninstall
outlook express to install OE6. If you have IE6 and OE5.5 then download
OE6 from the Windows Update site. Oh, also for the second time, Win Me
does not have OE5 but rather OE5.5. If you do have OE5 installed and are
running Win Me then you have real problems. :-)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004]



Tom wrote:

.I never set up my Outlook Express account under Comcast
so I can't delete it. When I open up OE, it opens as
Outlook Express 5, presented by Comcast. I have IE6, but I
still can't remove OE5 and Install OE6. And OE5 does not
work for me.