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There are a few ways of restoring the Outlook Express icon on your desktop.
After a long process of cleaning up after a virus, my Outlook Express icon is missing from my desktop. All the other icons are there. Would running System Recovery Console again restore the OE icon? If not, what could I do to restore this icon?
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Off the top of my head, I can come up with at least three approaches to try.
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One, simply right click on the desktop, Select New, Shortcut, and then browse to locate Outlook Express's .exe file. THAT's not obvious, but it's msimn.exe (form Microsoft Internet Mail and News - Outlook Express's old name), and is most likely in C:\program files\outlook express.
Another approach is to run System File Checker, which may well restore it.
Yet another approach would be to reinstall/repair Internet Explorer, of which Outlook Express is a part of it.
My approach would be the fist recreating the link manually.
Article C2263 - January 19, 2005
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I recently launched a very nasty Smitfraud program (not knowing i had)which removed the outlook express logo among many others .Your advice was excellent and i now have my desktop short cut back.
Posted by: Jim at July 26, 2008 2:30 AMThanks fo r the procedure above but when i searched for msimn.exe and clicked on it to launch outlook express, i am not getting the message headers but not the content - each mail looks blank - any way to fix this?
Posted by: breffni at September 3, 2008 10:11 AMWith Windows Xp,recently re installed and Outlook Express finally working,all I had to do was drag it from the start menu to the desktop.
Posted by: Steve at October 2, 2008 11:30 AMhii mr.leo am using windows server 2003 on my pc my computer has been infected with a .exe file when i was using yahoo chat and my desktops icons got changed.. my computer to krishnas computer my documnets to krishna documnets.. and recyle bin name changed to gw bush i removied that file(.exe)frm c drive and windows folder.. how to restore my desktop and even my explorer and yahoo mseger are not working properlyy they get closed very soon, and my if i ping someone on yahoo msgr some auto genrated mesages and that .exe file goes into other yahoo msgr im window please help meeeeeeeee,i couldnt format the system coz i have peoplesoft software in it and am using windows server 2003 as my os
Posted by: raghav at October 26, 2008 1:09 AMHi,
i by mistake deleted my msimn.exe file, now im unable to find it, i now go through run and input msmin.exe and then check my mails. is there any solution for this ??
Regards
Posted by: Srikanth at January 2, 2011 8:29 AMSrikanth