Outlook Newsreader launch trouble

J

Jim Tall

I followed the directions and put the 'news' option on
my 'go' dropdown menu and it ran fine that first time.
When I went back to it it now starts windows explorer
without an error message. Do I need to do a registry
tweak to have it find the program again... what is the
news reader executable?

thanks
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

It would help immensely if everyone would PLEASE POST the version of Outlook
that you are using. There are currently 5 versions of Outlook and 7 modes -
each one has different answers depending on the question. Help up help you.

Now, assuming that you are talking about Outlook 2003, you need to make
Outlook Express the default news reader in Control Panel->Internet
Options->Programs tab. If OE asks you to make it the default, do not do so
when you open OE.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Jim Tall <[email protected]> asked:

| I followed the directions and put the 'news' option on
| my 'go' dropdown menu and it ran fine that first time.
| When I went back to it it now starts windows explorer
| without an error message. Do I need to do a registry
| tweak to have it find the program again... what is the
| news reader executable?
|
| thanks
 
D

Diggy

Hope you don't mind my jumping in. I have OL 2003 and XP Home.

I had followed OL help directions to add "News" to the Go menu. Then later
the command disappeared. When I try to follow the help directions again, I
can't find the "News" command to add anymore! Am I missing something? Is
the "News" command only visible from within a certain OL folder or
something?

I also just followed the previous post and from the control panel I set OE
as the newsreader, but still no mojo in my Go, ya know?

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ICQ#
| It would help immensely if everyone would PLEASE POST the version of
Outlook
| that you are using. There are currently 5 versions of Outlook and 7
modes -
| each one has different answers depending on the question. Help up help
you.
|
| Now, assuming that you are talking about Outlook 2003, you need to make
| Outlook Express the default news reader in Control Panel->Internet
| Options->Programs tab. If OE asks you to make it the default, do not do
so
| when you open OE.
|
|
| --?
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
| Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
| reading.
|
| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
| Jim Tall <[email protected]> asked:
|
| | I followed the directions and put the 'news' option on
| | my 'go' dropdown menu and it ran fine that first time.
| | When I went back to it it now starts windows explorer
| | without an error message. Do I need to do a registry
| | tweak to have it find the program again... what is the
| | news reader executable?
| |
| | thanks
|
|
 

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