Can't install Outlook Express

[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.

[snooker]

Hi ... Not sure as to what you are doing but , Have a look at this website below and see if it help , If not I would suggest you do a repair installment

http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_r...e_and_oe_6.htm

how to do a repair installment

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


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[machine1]

I spent a lot of time on this one also and this worked for me.
First, I had to uninstall Windows SP2 under Add/Remove Programs under Control Panel. I already had downloaded SP2 and IE6setup.exe before I uninstalled SP2. Then, I ran all the disks that came with my computer(Dell 2400). I ran those in repair mode from the Install Menu. Then, go to Controll Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components and uncheck Internet Explorer and Outlook Express and let it run. Then go into the registry and change IE IsInstalled and OE IsInstalled to "0" like microsoft says to do. Then, reboot your computer and turn the slave drive off if you have one. Now, go to where you stored "IE6setup.exe"(It should be in a folder named "Windows Update Setup Files" which you created directly under the root disk(C:/ for example). Make sure your internet connection is on. Now click on IE6setup.exe and the Eula should come up and follow the directions to install IE6 and OE6. Reboot the computer after finished and it will tell you that IE and OE have been removed from your computer and do you want clean up. Type yes, twice of course. Then go back to your SP2 file you downloaded earlier and reinstall SP2 and then IE7 if you want that. Then go to windows update and it will run automatically and reinstall the updates that you lost when you uninstalled SP2. Then do a system restore point for safety. That worked for me anywhay.