Hello Ed,
The MSN Explorer that you downloaded from Microsoft is not an upgrade to
Explorer 5.5 but rather a simplified browser for new users. It is also it
is still a beta download.
Unfortunately, there is no fix right now that will let you go back to
Outlook Express. There is a fix that will let you download your mail
account that is now in Hotmail into Outlook Express, however, this is worse
than using Hotmail itself.
Microsoft is working on a permament fix to correct the problem and once
again allow you to use Outlook for your mail, but has given no date when
this fix will be available.
Get more information from http://go.msn.com/svcs/2/31.asp or
http://go.msn.com/svcs/2/32.asp.
From someone else who also got stuck - Good Luck!!!
Jack
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>From: Edward Whitnall <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [PCSOFT] Help with the new MSN Explorer
>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:22:28 -0400
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>I down loaded the upgrade to MSN 5.5 called MSN Explorer or MSN 2001
>Preview 2 (Beta) and now find that it was a huge mistake. It is misguided,
>slow, often goes off in the wrong direction
>It has a new e-mail system that is based upon the web Hot Mail system. The
>system is slow, doesn’t work at times, and can handle only 9 message
>titles per page at 1024 x 768 resolution. Coming off vacation it took an
>hour and a half to wade through 225 messages where I went through a similar
>number on another mailbox using Outlook Express in a few minutes. You
>can’t go from MSN to Hot Mail to any POP mail system without closing out
>of the first one and reconnecting to the next one.
>The new MSN clutters up the workspace with pretty pastel icons and a wide
>band of unusable workspace on the left and top of the screen.
>The problem: Microsoft says that this is a one-way upgrade and deleting it
>and reinstalling Outlook Express 5.5 won’t work. Microsoft has moved my
>address to a new location not accessible by Outlook Express.
>Question: Does anyone know of a way to get around this limitation, short
>of going to another service, so I can get back to using Outlook Express?
>Thank you,
>Ed Whitnall
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