Have XP-Pro SP3 and currently IE6 and OE6.

What happens to my OE6 if I upgrade to IE8?

Are IE and OE still linked and parts of the same parcel?

opalhort

Note: IE=Internet Explorer, OE=Outlook Express

OE 6 will stay the same. I did see in this web page that some lost some or a lot of their history when they upgraded to IE8. I have not had any problems with OE8 but also use Firefox for my Gmail at its home page. It will be interesting to see if Windows 7 does anything with OE.

OE is no longer a supported product AFAIK. The new system is part of the Windows Live cloud computing family, Live Mail. It reportedly is a much better program and indeed is very easy to set up once you download the system. It can import from OE - but not from Outlook. I have set it up but using Outlook as that is where my email files are located and don't have any OE available to move them to in order to import to Live Mail. Thunderbird is the other popular alternative to OE.

Thanks for all your replies.

I'm somewhat married to OE since the days of WIN95. Have accumulated well over 170,000 mails since then and only knowingly lost 3 mails over the years. When running my daily backup the uncompressed file is about 3GB.

My wife's PC (XP) has IE7 but still OE6 and my son's (Vista) has IE8 but no OE at all, only Windows live mail, which I tested and did not like at all!

I was only concerned that upgrade to IE8 could cause problems for OE6 since IE6 and OE6 share many settings.

Is anybody here using the IE8 and OE6 combination?

opalhort

Do a Google "ie8 oe6". Your post will probably be first but other forums have posts and there do seem to be some issues. First post I read is that JPG attachments will no longer open.

Edited August 13, 200916 yr by lopburi3

It's good that you are running daily backups, working in IT support I have seen to many times peoples OE database get corrupted when the file gets to big!

First post I read is that JPG attachments will no longer open.

Thanks Lopburi,

This was also an issue some years ago when M$ went from IE4 to IE5 which was obviously resolved after they came out with IE6 (OE6 included).

I guess it is best to just leave IE6 alone (and so OE6) and use other browsers when needed. Chrome appears to be very good but seems to have problems with some sites including ThaiVisa!

opalhort

Chrome is nice but as you say not friendly to some sites. Have returned to Firefox and with several add ons very happy with it.