I have Windows XP Pro with SP2

[sridharavijay]

The Outlook Express with SP2 is not working for me? Any clues? I cannot actually edit the email. Nor view the contents of email. the content pane is totally disabled? What do you think might be the reason? I attach the screenshot!

Thanks
Vijay S

[randem]

sridharavijay,

Have you updated your Office with the latest Office SP's?

[MartinLiss]

Moved to General PC.

[sridharavijay]

Yes... I do have Office 2002 SP3... do you think Office is the problem? But why? Office doesnt have anything to do with Outlook express right?

[randem]

sridharavijay,

Of course it does... What version of Outlook Express do you have installed?

[Ideas Man]

Those buttons are disabled by default when creating a new message, they enable themselves when you begin typing the body of the message, or when it has focus.

[sridharavijay]

I have OE 6.00.2900.2180
I also have HTML selected for options.
Thanks
Vijay S

[randem]

sridharavijay,

I just tried it and as soon as I clicked on the message potion of the screen the area enabled. Try that.

[Ideas Man]

Yeah, I realised how stupid it sounded when I posted it, so I changed it after I did a little bit of an investigation into what I said and changed it to what it is now.

[sridharavijay]

Sorry! The area is not getting focussed even. a single click, a double click, a triple, a quadruple clicks didnt work in that area.. neither any Key_Press event worked. There is something wrong.

[Ideas Man]

Try restarting your computer and see if it works then, also, try tabbing into the body field.

[Madboy]

sounds silly, is your Office a legit copy?

[-TPM-]

Have you set up an email account in O.E.?

[Ideas Man]

sounds silly, is your Office a legit copy?

You're not the only one but to clarify, he is NOT using Microsoft Outlook, he is using Microsoft Outlook Express, these are two different products.

So in response to that, it doesn't matter whether he does or not, it won't affect it.

[Ideas Man]

Have you set up an email account in O.E.?

You don't need to, I tested it w/o an account as I use Outlook, not Outlook Express (anymore).

[sridharavijay]

I've a leg copy and my compose is disabled totally... either it is a bug or the SP2 OE is so intelligent that if the smtp port is blocked, it will not allow to compose ... Is it so! Because I tried using Incredi mail, my mails are arriving, but not going out!

Thanks
Vijay S