Why does my system have OE installed after an Office Pro 2003 install?

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Dave Jenkins - 20 Oct 2004 02:49 GMT

I'm sure this has been asked and ansered before, but I don't seem to
be able to come up with the right search combination.

We have installed MS Office Pro 2003, but I see Outlook Express tracks
all over the place. How did they get there? Can I remove (safely)
the OE stuff?

Thanks.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 20 Oct 2004 03:59 GMT

OE was installed by Windows. OL and OE share some files - so do not
uninstall it.

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> I'm sure this has been asked and ansered before, but I don't seem to
> be able to come up with the right search combination.
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> Thanks.

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Dave Jenkins - 20 Oct 2004 14:21 GMT

> OE was installed by Windows. OL and OE share some files - so do not
> uninstall it.

Ummm... *why* did Windows install OE?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 20 Oct 2004 14:33 GMT

For the same reason Windows also installs notepad, calculator, WordPad, and
other apps, a bunch of games, Internet Explorer, movie maker, media player,
windows messenger, msn browser...

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>> OE was installed by Windows. OL and OE share some files - so do not
>> uninstall it.
>
> Ummm... *why* did Windows install OE?

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