Internet Explorer 5.50 and Outlook Express 5.50

[Russ]

Whenever I click on the Outlook Express(OE) icon,
Internet Explorer(IE) starts first, and goes to the
foreground. OE also loads, but goes to the background.
This occurs only when I have a default home page for IE.
When I use "about: blank", IE doesn't load, and OE does,
which is what I want.
Is there a way to have a default home page, and have
only OE start?

 

[rifleman]

Whenever I click on the Outlook Express(OE) icon,
Internet Explorer(IE) starts first, and goes to the
foreground. OE also loads, but goes to the background.
This occurs only when I have a default home page for IE.
When I use "about: blank", IE doesn't load, and OE does,
which is what I want.
Is there a way to have a default home page, and have
only OE start?

this newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003(beta) from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!