I remarked before that I had never joined a forum. I did once try a chat group. When I signed in a reply popped up thanking me for joining and welcoming me in a very polite way. I immediately replied in like manner. Well, up popped a new message telling me how &%$# stupid I was and that the welcome was from a BOT. I had no idea what a bot was but backed out of that room real quickly. So Technical and Techie 101 I thank you for your polite welcomes and warm responses. If you all do happen to be bots, I don't care. If you are not, well just continue making all of us feel like our problem is the most important of all.
Now to my progress.
Suggestion 1: Repair MS Internet Explorer/Tools
When I went to repair, a message said “Explorer cannot be repaired due to the following error: File SCRRUN.DLL is missing. Please run set up again to reinstall all components”.
I then went to the install, browsed and found program files/IE6 setup.exe and chose the typical set of components installation. This message then appeared: “The most recent version of all items are already installed. It is recommended you exit set up without reinstalling” But I chose reinstall anyway.
Then I got this message: “The download location information is damaged. Please clear your Internet Browser Caches and retry Setup”
I didn’t know what an internet browser cache was but tried a Disk Clean up. I went back through the whole procedure but got the same messages.
Suggestion 2: create an Smtp.log file
I went to OE/Tools/Options BUT I could find no “Logging Options” and therefore could not proceed. Plus I looked for “Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail folder” and could not find that. Also I did not understand what “post the log file here” meant but that can be solved later.
Suggestion 3: Outlook Express links
I will enjoy reading and learning from them.
So I am making progress although it took me all day to do the above.(between games of Yahoo bridge)
Please do not hesitate to make your suggestions as simple as can be and go on the assumption that I know very little. I am a retired teacher and know it saves time to go slowly and step by step.
Thanks for you patience.