[Willie_Williams]

Somehow, Outlook Express has disappeared from my XP Home Edition system.

I installed IE Service Pack 2 (well before it disappeared).

From looking around download centers, it appears that, for XP, Outlook Express is only installable as part of an IE install or Service Pack install.

When I try to do either of these, the download stops when it sees I've already got SP2 installed.

What do I have to do to reinstall Outlook Express? I don't see IE on the "Add/Remove Programs" list. I do see "Windows XP Service Pack 2" there. Should I Remove SP2 and then reinstall it?

The reason I want Outlook Express, incidentally, is not so much to use it for emailing; rather, I recently switched jobs and brought over to this home PC a massive .pst file with years of archived email, including addresses of people I'd like to contact to give my new email address to. So I'd like to be able to access, if only in Read mode, this .pst file. I'm assuming that if I install Outlook Express I'll be able to do this, by pointing to Outlook Express when I double-click on the .pst file and it tells me it can't open it until it learns the program that created it.

Will installing Outlook Express enable me to open the .pst file?

Thanks.