Re: M$ nazis or what?
From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 04/24/04
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:33:23 -0700
Why don't you set up a NG account and post through OE instead of the
web based forum?
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/resources.htm#setupmsnews
Or:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fdirectory%2fworldwide%2fen-gb%2fnewsout.asp
Or:
http://home.earthlink.net/~fightingfinn/nntp_posting.html
Almost everything you could think to ask:
http://home.mchsi.com/~resident.resident/newsgroups.htm
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~
"YouHoosier" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:399101c4299c$601eba40$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Guess I am so inept that I can find my 'missing' post only
> in a MS OE forum search after failing to find it posted
> and using two separate computers?
>
> What got me going on this was after finding my post listed
> in my "From: YouHoosier" search, it too disappeared after
> I selected all, (tried copying it's text), clicked copy
> and minimized the search page to paste it in Notepad and
> found no paste, then what burned me up was that going back
> to the search From..., it wasn't there anymore!
>
> And was I surprized to see this post posted! Figured to
> let off some steam by letting waht I saw as the MS censors
> simply having gone one step beyond.
>
> I can't explain it, but if two computers fail to locate
> the post, and both also find no listing in the search
> engine, what is one to think??
>
> Regrets if/as wrong, regards and hap e-trails to all,
> YouHoosier
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >"YouHoosier" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message
> >news:39ed01c42996$ac2d0000$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Posted switches and other help items for OE users this
> >> morning any while found it wasn't posted, low and behold
> >> it was still in the search engine though!
> >>
> >> Gee. I guess this forum can't take insults like "Thanks
> >> anyway MS"
> >>
> >> Will go back to helpful forum like Computing.net
> >>
> >> Last you'll hear from this YouHoosier you nazi(s).
> >
> >
> >If you're talking about this, it was posted and is still
> posted.
> >
> >Ran this switch courtesy of a real user, mesich. This's
> >what worked (aside assumably from reinstalling IE and OE):
> >start>run (then type in) "c:\program files\outlook
> >express\msimn.exe" /reg (and press enter). This
> immediately
> >and simply enabled IE's program's e-mail menu to register
> >OE!
> >
> >Another ComputingNet forum suggestion was to run this
> >switch: "C:\WINDOWS Update Setup
> >Files\ie6setup.exe" /c:"ie6wzd /e:MailNews /I:Y"
> >
> >Another ComputingNet forum suggestion was to run regedit
> >and locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active
> >Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-
> >00AA00B6015C} and enter the 0 (zero) value in place of
> >the "1". That tricks IE into thinking OE isn't installed
> >and IE reinstalls OE w/o needing to reinstall IE. Be aware
> >that you MAY lose any current emails, so backup OE's .DBX
> >files first.
> >
> >Thanks anyway M$
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>See if this helps.
> >>
> >>263453 - OLEXP: Error Message: Simple MAPI Support Could
> >Not Be Enabled
> >>Because Mapistub.dll Could Not Be Found in the System
> >Directory or Failed to
> >>Load:
> >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> >us;Q263453
> >>
> >>
> >>Mapistub.dll can be found in the mailnews.cab file in
> >your "C:\Windows
> >>Update Setup Files" folder. Or if you are running
> >Windows XP, might want to
> >>try a repair/uninstall/reinstall as outlined in this
> >article (just make sure
> >>to shut down any antivirus program before doing the
> >reinstall to prevent a
> >>corrupted or flawed install):
> >>
> >>How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook
> >Express in Windows
> >>XP:
> >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> >us;Q318378
> >>
> >>--
> >>Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
> >>Please reply only to newsgroup.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>"YouHoosier" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> >in message
> >>news:1b4ae01c4208c$f87453e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >>> Have two OS's, IBM and Tohiba. Both run Win98SE, IE6SP1
> >>> and OE6. Oddly both OS's refused to allow me to list my
> >>> OE6 as the default mail handler (which OE6 pops up
> would
> >>> prompt me to do) whenever starting up OE6.
> >>>
> >>> Having never used OE' until (when previously using
> >AOL), I
> >>> set up my msn.hotmail in OE6. Having rid my OS of AOL
> >and
> >>> now using a pop3 ISP, I succeeded in setting up both
> >>> Netscape' and Hotmail in OE6, and while my OS's both
> >send
> >>> and receive w/o problems or apparrent issues, I used to
> >>> get the following whenever I opened OE6:
> >>>
> >>> "Outlook Express is not currently your default mail
> >>> client. Would you like to make it your default mail
> >client?
> >>>
> >>> Answering (clicking) Yes, I'd get another popup message
> >>> that states:
> >>>
> >>> "Simple MAPI support could not be enabled because
> >>> MAPISTUB.DLL could not be found in the system directory
> >or
> >>> failed to load. Reinstalling should restore this file."
> >>>
> >>> I feel that what caused this may have been a
> combination
> >>> of having used AOL and having set up a msn hotmail
> >account
> >>> in OE6 while I still used AOL's e-mail (in AOL) and
> >>> hotmail (in OE6).
> >>>
> >>> That alone may not have caused the MAPI problem, but I
> >>> feel another previous application may also have caused
> >or
> >>> contributed to the resultant MAPI problem.
> >>>
> >>> I had tried using Windows Messaging's Fax without ever
> >>> having completely finishing the WM setup. That is, I
> >never
> >>> was afforded how to enter a path for the Inbox to allow
> >>> WM' to act as a mail handler.
> >>>
> >>> Instead, only wishing to use WM's included fax feature,
> >I
> >>> did a few times until I found that despite all settings
> >to
> >>> the contrary, whenever my phone rang one time, the WM
> >fax
> >>> would pick up and squeal into my incoming caller's ear.
> >>>
> >>> After several removals of WM, I finally seemed to have
> >rid
> >>> my OS of WM' and the associated fax feature, except
> when
> >>> my OS is up and running, it oddly still picks up the
> >phone
> >>> and squeals despite that WM' and the fax are nowhere to
> >be
> >>> seen in my OS.
> >>>
> >>> Also after I uninstalled AOL, I believe I found that
> AOL
> >>> had relocated Win98 folder full of .cab files. That,
> and
> >>> the issues of having used Windows Messaging/Microsoft
> >Mail
> >>> Postoffice/Microsoft Fax, I believe have effected my OS
> >to
> >>> where the missing MAPISTUB.DLL resulted in OE's
> >inability
> >>> to be listed in IE's properties's program's e-mail box.
> >>>
> >>> In my Toshiba, after having rid it of AOL and WM', and
> >>> encountering the inability to list OE as a default mail
> >>> handler, I first tried replacing the missing
> >MAPISTUB.DLL
> >>> in WINDOWS/SYSTEM folder, but no luck as while I no
> >longer
> >>> got the popup asking for OE to be made my default,
> >etc., I
> >>> see in my IE's properties that the programs tab lists
> >>> nothing in the e-mail box. This tells me that OE is not
> >my
> >>> default mail handler, right? Nor can I find any way to
> >get
> >>> OE to show up in that box.
> >>>
> >>> As for my IBM's OS, while experiencing all of the same
> >>> issues except that before removing AOL, I had removed
> >the
> >>> WM' and it's fax, but I later reinstalled only the
> >>> awfax.exe while avoiding any partial install of WM's
> >>> Microsoft Mail Postoffice/Inbox.
> >>>
> >>> In the IBM, I used have only the issues of an inability
> >to
> >>> set OE as the default mail handler, until I placed the
> >>> missing MAPISTUBB.DLL in it's WINDOW/SYSTEM folder.
> Then
> >>> the IBM finally lists OE in it's IE Properties
> >program's e-
> >>> mail box.
> >>>
> >>> Seems I lucked out by happenstances and solved the IBM
> >>> issues, but cannot resolve the Toshiba's. At this
> >point, I
> >>> am left to trying the following, unless someone has a
> >>> better idea.
> >>>
> >>> The above switch, if failing to correct the issue, I'll
> >>> then try the following registry trick towards enabling
> >my
> >>> IE to perhaps reinstall my OE by using the repair IE
> >tool
> >>> in MS System Information.
> >>>
> >>> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active
> >>> Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-
> >>> 00AAOOB6015C}
> >>>
> >>> If there is a value IsInstalled - change it to 0
> (zero).
> >>> Backup my .wab and .dbx files. Then using the repair IE
> >>> feature in MS System Information, and that still
> doesn't
> >>> fix things, then one must actually remove OE from
> >>> installed programs box in add/remove, and then try
> again
> >>> use the repair IE repair feature, and if that fails to
> >>> reinstall OE or resolve the IE/OE issue, then I must
> >>> reinstall IE?
> >--
> >Bruce Hagen
> > ~IB-CA~
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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