From where can I download Outlook Express 6?

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Very clear and practical. Although currently I'm still happy with OE, this explains the way things are going, and gives me options to consider for the future.
Why cannot Microsoft explain things as simply as this, without getting tangled up with a bunch of marketing fluff and "pzazz" or "WOW" as they like to think of it? Well, of course I DO know why, and it's all to do with increa$ing their profit$!

Now this is strange, apparently. I am using Win XP SP2, along with IE 7 and I have Windows
Explorer on my computer. I rarely, if ever, use it, so I did a search on my computer and there it was. I wound up sending it to my desk top from the search panel (right click, send to) and it's on my desktop.

My Outlook Express 6 started to lock up two days ago. I spent hours trying to get an upgrade or some kind of download to reinstall OE6 just so we could read our e-mail. Not until I found your site did I get any straight-forward, helpful answers. I eventually downloaded Windows Live Mail Beta and everything flowed right from OE to the new set-up. You provided a happy ending to a frustraing experience, thanks for making the information available.

Leo in your article you say: Outlook Express is not affected, it's not updated or removed. However when you fire up Windows Live Mail for the first time it does automatically import all your Outlook Express mail, contacts and settings.

Steve (above) says: Outlook Express is not affected, it's not updated or removed. However when you fire up Windows Live Mail for the first time it does automatically import all your Outlook Express mail, contacts and settings.

If Windows Live Mail is then found to be "not wanted", what is the process for reverting to OE? Something like starting fresh with, say, Thunderbird? Or, is data automatically imported from OE also still in OE?

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Data imported from OE is copied from OE so it's still there in OE. Reverting to
OE is as simple as just firing it up.

Leo

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I don't have all the answers yet, but do have a few additions to this thread. I asked MS how to get OE for Vista. They replied in true MS fashion with a partial answer. They directed me to Windows Mail. They told me, in answer to another question, that Windows Vista (via Windows Vista Mail) no longer supports Hotmail accounts, so it would appear that my 5 Hotmail accounts would have to be dumped or accessed separately. I found that not to be the case as Outlook still will download Hotmail, but now you have to upgrade to Windows Live Hotmail. And, it is still true that Windows Vista Mail does not support any of the Hotmail type web based email. I tried Thunderbird, but it appears to have the same limitations - not positive - but I think so. MS said that I could BUY OE7, a new standalone version. Apparantly they are not mentioning this publicly. Somewhere along the line, I stumbled on Windows Live Mail. And, as noted above, it seems to do most of the things OE used to do but with more security. I have found that it seems to be slower, it does not allow as easy of selection of a folder in the Stored Folders area (you click on a folder, and the list jumps all around, and you have to search for the opened folder again - thus making filing a royal PIA). Also, if you click on "move to" and try to click in the listing of folders, sometimes it takes more than one click to move the elevator one folder. I hope that it has solved the problem with OE that offen deleted a file without any way of geting it back. Anyway, using Windows Live Mail seems to work ok - I'm using it with 5 Live Hotmail accounts and a gmail and comcast account with all emails being downloaded.

Now if I can just find a way to get my contacts from the old computer running ME to the new one running Vista. There is no File/Import/Contacts in Windows Live Mail.......Aha! I just looked around a bit and found the Import function for Contacts under - would you believe it - Contacts. I had previously exported my Contacts from OE on the old Laptop running ME to the desktop on the new Vista machine. And, as I type those contacts are being imported into Windows Live Mail. So, if they can just fix the filing problems mentioned above, I think I'm going to be happy using Windows Live Mail. Hope this helps.
Chuck

Can Leo or anybody help me solving this odd issue please?
I've installed the latest version of Windows Live Mail Beta, it replaced the Outlook Express and imported my hotmail account. It is automatically configured and read all my messages, the problem it is reading only the message header but unable of reading bodies!!! It shows this error message:

Windows Live Mail could not download the requested message. To send and receive messages in your Hotmail account, go to http://hotmail.live.com on the Web, or try again later. To get help from Windows Live Customer Support, go to http://support.live.com and click Windows Live Mail in the list of services.

Subject 'RE: Wish u all the good!'
Server Error: 0x8000FFFF
Server: 'http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v2.0.0/Sync.aspx'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8000FFFF

The other big issue with Windows Mail for Vista, is that you can't password the email account (Identities no longer exist). There is your Vista User login, but nothing to prevent opening your email once you are logged into a user account. Why does MS feel a need to remove features that are useful for some people!

I got windows mail with a new Vista and so far I pretty much hate it. It does not alphabetize contacts by last name,but by some goofy system only vista understands. There doesn't seem to be the wonderful "find" that Outlook Express had, which I used all the time because I carry on lots of conversations about lots of topics. And it has some dumb "stacking" thing which has no purpose as far as I can see except to get in the way and make me curse. What can I do? Is there a way to get old outlook express back? can I download one from another computer? joni

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Please read the article again, it discusses getting OE elsewhere. (You cannot).

What you can try is Windows Live Mail, which is different than the Windows Mail
you're using. Again, re-read the article for the download link.

Leo

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