updating Outlook Express

This thread so far:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...64d13 367ef6b

If you upgraded to IE6 and then reinstalled WinME *without* first
uninstalling IE6, you end up with what the WinME pros call "sersion soup",
and "version soup" is most likely the cause of your current problem (and
possibly others).

The fix for this is clearly outlined on MVP Noel Paton's page,
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/ReInIE.htm. Follow the directions
*exactly* as written, in order.

I'm crossposting my reply to WinME General newsgroup
(microsoft.public.windowsme.general) so they'll know of your plaint and
you'll be able to find and followup in that newsgroup.

Once you get everything straightened out, OE, IE & Windows should be able to
update properly at Windows Update, Ron.

Best of luck.
--
~PA Bear

CC: Noel

Ron Spruell wrote:
Well I don't remember now exactly but I know I didn't uninstall anything I
just re-installed Windows Millennium. I was running the latest version of
Windows and Outlook Express then I had a computer problem so I had to
reinstall Windows Millennium after I reinstall windows I had to keep
upgrading Internet explorer until I could get it to take Internet Explorer
v6.0 and this took me some time to find the lower version and several
tries
before I realized why Internet Explorer v6.0 would not install after I had
re-installed Windows Millennium. Then after several attempts I remembered
that I could not just install Internet Explorer v6.0 after I had
reinstalled
Windows because the version of Internet Explorer that came with the disk
was
v5.0 of Internet Explorer but I had to go from update to update until I
had
a version Internet Explorer v6.0 would install to. Then I installed v6.0
of
Internet explorer. If I now have SP1 and if there is an SP2 out there I
guess that's what I need to do is try and download that and see if it
fixes
outloo express.

Assuming you're posting from the problem machine, I can tell from your
headers (Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478) that you didn't manage
to force an install of 837009, Ron. Don't know what to tell you other
than the method I posted (even without rebooting into Safe Mode) has
worked just fine for other Win9x users.

Tell me if this scenario applies to you: Running WinME, you upgrade to
IE6
SP1 then, due to some sort of problem later on, you reinstall WinME
without
first uninstalling IE6 SP1.
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I have a problem that I can't seem to get around. I have tried to update
outlook express but can't. Everything works in Outlook Express except when
someone sends my wife an E-mail and they use AOL and the message is 4 to to
6 deep. Then outlook says something about can't open it because it's an exe
program or something like that.

The version of Outlook Express I have is 6.00.2800.1123

Yes I know I need to update and that's the problem. I have tried to update
it and if I go to the update page and download the latest update [837009] it
looks like it works and on the web page it says it is installed but it
isn't.

The next day it again wants to download and install it again and the version
number in Outlook Express hasn't changed. Then I went to the Out look
Express home page and tried to download from there. Even thou they say its
for Me and all the others one of them I try to download came up with a
message after downloading that it's for XP. the other one says I need to
down load outlook express version 6 sp1 so what it amounts to is I can't
update Outlook express for some reason.
--
Ron Spruell
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