Prev: determine when entries were made in address book
Next: General OE User Caveats - one mo' time...
From: Steve Cochran on 2 Jul 2010 07:59
Hi Rainald,

I wasn't trying to tell people what to do. Just providing options to people, who want what they have to continue.

cheers,

steve

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler(a)gmx.de> wrote in message news:ur3HXBcGLHA.1996(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Steve Cochran wrote:
>> Several have wondered if there is anyway to use OE (or WinMail in
>> Vista) in Windows 7.
>>
>> This page addresses some of the potential means to do so:
>> http://www.oehelp.com/OEnWin7.aspx
>
> Thanks a lot for the info, Steve!
>
> Option #1 (avoid upgrading to Win7) IMHO not really is an option.
> Win7 has to offer so much more over XP that the possibility of a further
> usage of OE (which not really was a "masterpiece" {siiigh}) IMHO would
> not be the slightest reason to stay away from Win7.
> He who wants to stick with old XP and avoid to get accustomed to the
> current OS might find an excuse for being reluctant, however. ;-) ;-)
>
> Options #2 and #3 (XP-mode or some other VM) have been mentioned in
> discussions in the German community more or less in a joking manner.
> I agree with this approach.
>
> I for one am using the XP-mode (even bought a new machine with Intel VT)
> because I can hardly work with one of my main apps under Win7 (whereas
> it worked pretty well under Vista).
> But I really do not even think of doing my mail things under the XP-mode
> (or any other VM).
> What for?
>
> WinMail happily runs on my Win7 machines!*)
> So what?
>
> It might pretty well be that I might be missing something.
> But - honestly speaking - which advantages would OE under XP-mode have
> over WinMail?
>
> TIA
> Rainald
> *) The only problem that ever appeared was a "Win Security Update" a
> while ago (around May 12).
> Left alone the time needed for handling all the cries on the German
> community <gbg> it didn't take more than half an hour to fix the problem
> by copying over the updated version of MSOE.dll from Vista <g>
>
First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 1 2 3
Prev: determine when entries were made in address book
Next: General OE User Caveats - one mo' time...