Microsoft Releases Cumulative Update for Outlook Express 6 Service Pack 1

Christer--How was this Cumulative OE Update "suggested" to you? I do not have Windows Update set to notify me, but I go there from time to time. This update is not offered by a WU scan, but I can get it by clicking on Optional Updates in the left panel.
I also read the two different MS articles on the Update.
The article reference by Arie is entitled
"Microsoft Releases Cumulative Update for Outlook Express 6 Service Pack 1" though I see the references to SP2 in what for me would be unlikely circumstances.
The article
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8b-69b0-4813-9856-a1a3da675baf&displaylang=en
would certainly lead me to think it does not apply to XP SP2.

And if there is such a thing, not to OE SP2. (As I noted in an earlier thread, I have never understood whether there is an OE 6 SP2 and an IE 6 SP2.)
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showpost.php?p=206330&postcount=4

Does everyone (all two of you )feel that there is no harm in putting this update on a system with XP SP2?

 

Christer--Thanks. Looking forward to hearing that all is OK with your OE after a week or so!!
BTW--Are you aware if there is a SP2 for IE6 or OE6?

 

Jim, both OE and IE have SP2 versions and if you have them it will be listed in the Help > About section of each. Take a look-see there and find out.

On mine they say:

OE says:
6.00.2900.2180[xpsp_sp2_rtm.0408033-2158]

and IE says:
Version: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158

I don't know why the missing zero on IE but it's true.?

BTW, I'm declining the offer of the afore mentioned optional patch since I don't think I will ever need it.

 

surferdude2--Yep. That is what my Help|About windows say. Seems another confusion in the MS announcements of the KB887797 update, which are specific to OE SP1.

P.S. The main reasons I asked this is that I feel Help|About IE showed the "sp2" descriptions before I installed Windows XP SP2. But I could be wrong. Been installing an awful lot in the last four months when I bought the "new" PC.

 

I think you may be mistaken Jim. I do believe the sp2 got added to IE and OE at the same time XP SP2 was installed. I don't recall doing anything else to either.

 

There were a few updates that were marked SP2 before the actual Service pack was released, and now that I let Windows Update do its thing, I have "hotfixes" that say SP3. I doubt, like SD2, that I will ever need the OE update, but I took it (it was recommended, not critical) only because I try to do things "by default" when I can, so when the telephone starts ringing about "this weird thing my computer is doing now" I have a vague idea of what they are talking about. It's been 24 hours, no problems with any of the 8 updates I accepted, and I used the comp hard, today.

For anyone following this thread: if you don't know what updates you have installed on your computer, you can find out on the MS site, run a Belarc, or use qfecheck IF you have XP.

From my Notes, with Credit to Abraxas:

Johanna

 

Those who don't happen to have qfecheck.exe on their drive can get it from the Microsoft link in this thread.

 

Mine is the original OEM install that came with the box in April of 2002. XP is quite robust!

 

Yes, all criticals and SP's were implemented as soon as they came out. All went in over the preceding.

ps. I am currently only refusing 3 optional components; .Net Framework Ver. 1.1, Highmat Support (831240) and the Journal Viewer.

 

Fwiw

My IE version is the same as SD2's- XP Pro cd bought in Dec 01, installed on new comp in September 04, then I bled Windows Update online. I don't have the "extra" zero, either.

Johanna