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Purcy · #1 Post by **Purcy** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:15 pm

I deleted my Outlook Express icon on the desktop a long time ago as I did not intend to ever use that program. Well I changed my mind and now I have it set up to retrieve my mail, since it has that nice "ding" noise when new mail arrives and I can leave it running when using Firefox browser. I would love to have a genuine OE icon, as now I had to make a shortcut icon from the original program in the folder and it says msimn.exe instead of Outlook Express. This icon opens the program, but I want the real one back. Anyway to get that icon from somewhere.

joester · #2 Post by **joester** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:28 pm

Have you tried the Microsoft help desk?

You would be surprised how they can help with some stuff...

Joe

#3 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:29 pm

Purcy wrote:I would love to have a genuine OE icon, as now I had to make a shortcut icon from the original program in the folder and it says msimn.exe instead of Outlook Express.

I also don't use Outlook Express (it's one of the first things I delete upon a new OS install), however if you have right-clicked on the desktop, specified the path to msimn.exe, then you should have what I assume is the default icon. It looks like two blue arrows surrounding an envelope. If that is not what you want, right-click on the icon, choose Properties, then the Change Icon button and search for the one you want. If you can't find one you like in the four choices, there is another file you can access for additional icons.

If you simply want to rename the icon from "msimn.exe", simply select the icon, press the F2 key and rename it.

#4 Post by **tomh009** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:48 pm

Is the icon actually different? If it's the same icon, but with the wrong text, you can simply single-click on the icon, hit F2 and type in "Outlook Express" as its name.

Purcy · #5 Post by **Purcy** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:04 pm

tomh009 wrote:Is the icon actually different? If it's the same icon, but with the wrong text, you can simply single-click on the icon, hit F2 and type in "Outlook Express" as its name.

Thank you everyone for your quick suggestions; I am thrilled that this suggestion listed above worked so darn fast. Ray and Tomh009, you nailed it. I now have my original icon back (envelope with two arrows) on the desktop.

thank you so much

Purcy · #6 Post by **Purcy** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:07 pm

Ray, may I ask what email program you run when you use Firefox browser? I like the sound notification when new mail arrives and when I would check my mail on hotmail.com, you don't get that, esp. when you leave a tab open for that site. I've used Eudora in the past and that was a nice background running email program too.

#7 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:08 pm

Sorry for the delayed reply but we were apparently having some network problems at work earlier...

I generally use both my Yahoo and AOL e-mail accounts at each site's appropriate home page. I do have Thunderbird installed so when I click on any e-mail link, it launches. I've defined the mail settings in Thunderbird to appear to come from my Yahoo account since it's easier to access my Yahoo mail from any computer/anywhere (I'm having problems with sending email using AOL webmail). I'm not even sure if Tbird has any audible notifications since I don't use it that way.

Hope that answers your questions.

Purcy · #8 Post by **Purcy** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:39 am

Yes, it does; I appreciate your reply. Hope you have a great weekend.

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