For your first question: Yes, you can use Outlook 97 with Windows XP.
For your second question, follow these steps:
1) Make sure Outlook is listed as your default mail program here: Control
Panel | Internet Options | Programs tab.
2) Remove all mail accounts from Outlook Express (unless you can't bear to
part with them for some reason).
3) Disable automatic checking for new mail in OE.
4) Only open OE if you're going to use it for newsreading (Outlook doesn't
have its own newsreader, it uses OE for that), and either open the newsreader
through Outlook (View | Go To | News) or open OE with the /newsonly switch.
This way, all mail functions in OE are disabled anyway, so there's no chance
of using them by mistake.
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Jocelyn Fiorello
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