[tom.stevenson]

I'm fed up with the glacial speed of the new Windows Mail on VISTA and as I do not like Outlook (I keep trying it!), I wondered if Outlook Express 6 works on VISTA and, if so, where I could download it from? If MS, would VISTA let me install it?
TIA

[spdabbs]

Have you tried an alternative client such as Mozilla Thunderbird - far better (IMO) than any MS offering - and it works in Vista.

[tom.stevenson]

Well, as I use Firefox , I suppose I should at least give it a try!
Thanks.
Tom

[Rich-M]

Yeah OE will not work in Vista. I agree it's a shame we have to live with this Outlook "clone".

[JohnWill]

I use Thunderbird, it works fine on Vista.

[EAFiedler]

Outlook Express is gone, replaced with Windows Mail.

[tom.stevenson]

I use Plaxo a lot and I like to use the Plaxo-powered signature, but as I was downloading Plaxo for Thunderbird, Plaxo warned "The Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird may not work well with address books over 3000 contacts." and I have almost 5,000 contacts (all vital). I'm going to try it out, but I feel as if I'm between a rock ( Plaxo does not yet work with Windows Mail, and when it does, I doubt that i will use it because it is so frustratingly slow) and a hard place ( the only other email program Plaxo supports for a PC platform is Thunderbird, but that is restricted by the size of the address book it can work with, and I'm almost double the limit!).
I appreciate that as far as MS is concerned, OE6 is no more, but has no one out there tried to get OE6 up and working on VISTA as a stand alone email program?

[DoubleHelix]

Outlook Express is not a stand-alone application. It's integrated into Windows. By definition it can't be installed as a stand-alone program. It uses Windows system files.