RE: Opening my email in outlook express

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I have used OE this way forever, and now I have to open each individual
message in its own window and THEN open the message from the attchment window
to read it? Yes, that's more of a pain in the *** that I want to put up
with.
Brent

"N. Miller" wrote:

> In article <BEDB41C4-7CD8-4D6B-A49C-897487254744@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, says...
>
> > I'm having a similar issue. I just downloaded all the available windows and
> > office updates and patches. As soon as I completed the installation, all of
> > the emails in my folders will not display in the preview window. I have to
> > open each individual email in a separate window, then open the message from
> > the attachment window. I have hundreds of emails in various local folders
> > and hotmail folders. I sent myself new emails and it does the same thing to
> > new emails. At first I thought it had deleted the text bodies from the
> > emails, but it seems to be some kind of security feature installed with the
> > updates that does not allow emails to be viewed in the preview window, only
> > as attachments. I checked all of the security settings that I know of in
> > OE6, but no luck. I really want to resolve this issue. Is there a way to
> > remove the security updates I just installed?
>
> > I'm running 2000 Pro and OE6, completely updated with service packs and
> > security patches.
>
> Why would anybody want to remove security updates? Is seeing email from the
> Preview Pane so important that you would risk viral infection to be able to
> do so? Where are your priorities?
>
> Have you considered that there may be security options which you don't know
> about? I wonder if the security updates changed the MSOE default View option
> to disable the Preview Pane? View > Layout; is there a check in the box
> labeled, "Show preview pane"? Be sure to do this from a defined account, or
> the Local Folders; it doesn't work from the top of the folder tree. It may
> also be blocked by the system administrator, if you are using somebody
> else's computer. While this is considered by many to be a security issue, it
> won't be found in the security menu.
>
> --
> Norman
> ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
> ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
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>
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