YW. I think IE8 was designed more for Win 7 than XP or Vista. Hopefully it
will work there reasonably well.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Heather" wrote in message
...
Big kissies to PA and Bruce!! I have my IE7 back and more importantly, my
ability to open dirty joke pictures in OE........LOL!! One good thing MS
does is uninstall properly.....so far.

Just removed that *blast-ard* IE8 program and wonder why in hell MS put it
out there. I only run SpywareBlaster......no other antimalware stuff that
isn't on demand. MBAM is on here too and I run it every week.

I do have Windows Live Essentials, Live Sign-in Assistant & Live Upload
on here......should I also remove any of those?? I believe that the first
is a chat update for MSN or some such and I just don't use that stuff.

Huge thanks to you both.......that was really ticking me off. I think the
fact that I let the computer guy talk me into putting it on here was
REALLY ticking me off. It was supposed to make the print bigger on the
programs.....didn't do that at all.

XX Figgs

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
So if you can tell me why I can't click on the paperclip to open photos,
etc., I will be happy.

Did you happen to install IE8 again? Did you disable all real-time
protections afforded by your (1) anti-virus application, (2) any
anti-spyware applications, (3) disable any third-party firewall (and then
enable the Windows Firewall) prior to installing IE8?

Assuming either the CDs that same with the computer or the hidden Recover
partition was used to reinstall Windows, was a Norton or McAfee
free-trial reinstalled (which would NOT have been valid)?

Also, I thought the new Clickfree backup would reinstall all of my *.dbx
files into OE with no problem, but such is not the case.

I wouldn't depend on any such program to backup *and* "reinstall" OE
data. There's no way that the {GUID} associated with your new/current
identity (after the reinstall) is identical to the {GUID} associated with
your pre-reinstall identity. (And I'd hope that your Inbox, Sent Items,
and Deleted Items folders were empty and that you'd compacted all OE
folders prior to backing up the old data.)

If you have "orphaned" DBX files, you may be able to import them. See...

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

PA.....OE wasn't corrupt as we thought.

Huh? Are you referring to
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...1d57039c1545f9
(31 May-09 &ff)?
--
~Robear


Heather wrote:
For the first time in 10 years, I had to have a computer reformatted.
And
reinstalling all of the programs and updating them has been a royal
PITA!!

However....I see that in OE, the attachments will not open. They did
fine
OK after the reinstall, I think.....but I assume it is some sort of
association that I need to fix/change/do/whatever.

Also, I thought the new Clickfree backup would reinstall all of my *.dbx
files into OE with no problem, but such is not the case. They are all
in
the folder and I have the main ones connected and a couple of
subfolders,
but not entirely sure how to reconnect the others. OTOH, it is not a
big
deal.

PA.....OE wasn't corrupt as we thought. Once I got rid of a lot of news
groups under Motzarella when changing it to Eternal September, the
durned
thing started compacting again.....including the Folders File. Have no
idea
why, but not going to ask, grin.

So if you can tell me why I can't click on the paperclip to open photos,
etc., I will be happy. There is something glitchy with the XP install
and I
will hit that group with a few questions. Minor I suppose, but I don't
like
glitches.

Cheers.....Heather/Figgs