When I installed Outlook 97 in my XP Home system, it wouldn't deliver or
receive mail, saying, "No
Transport Provider".   Outlook Express was working fine, with the settings
for account name, pw,
POP3, server, SMTP server, already put in.  I just wanted some of the
additional features that come with Outlook97.
When I tried to add a "Service", however,  it seemed to only accept the
Microsoft Mail Postoffice as the source/destination for email.  There seemed
to be no way to tell it to use an SMTP/POP protocol service.
So I tried installing IMEP, and SR1 and SR2 as suggested previously (and
thanks to all who offerred those tips, it almost worked!), but SR2 says it
needs SR1, and all SR1 does is sort individual Office97 applications into
two groups---  applications that it will update and those that it won't.  On
my system, SR1 declared that all of the Office applications will not be
updated because they are "newer or have already been updated" (?).  Then of
course SR2 refuses to install because SR1 hasn't been installed (grrrr).
  Long story short --- Office 97 is too old, I've concluded that any
software that requires multiple service packs is too old for comfort, and I
decided to go back to Outlook Express.
So, I removed Outlook97 by uninstalling it with the proper install/reinstall
interface, but now there's a new problem: XP thinks my current email app is
Outlook97 and not Outlook Express --- when I right click a file (to attach
to a new email) and select "send to email recipient" the process just
terminates and nothing happens instead of starting up Outlook Express and
creating a blank email message with the selected file automaticaly attached
like it is supposed to do, and like it used to do.
How do I get XP to understand that I have gone back to Outlook Express as my
current email application?


Tom

Tom H <cyber***@shaw.ca> wrote:

You don't really have to post this same question so many times and it's best
to continue in your original thread instead of starting a new one.

u sure about that?  I dont think I would have gotten the answers that I did
if I hadn't posted a second version of it.

Tom H <cyber***@shaw.ca> wrote:

Yes.

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