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How do I add icon on home page for Outlook Express e-mails

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paulfulton
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I have just changed my browser from Internet Explorer to Firefox and in this process have lost the Mail icon on my home page that I could click on to go to my Outlook Express e-mails. I can only reach them at present on my Start menu. As I have no expertise can you please tell me in simple terms how I can add an icon that will enable me to access my e-mails directly?

I have just changed my browser from Internet Explorer to Firefox and in this process have lost the Mail icon on my home page that I could click on to go to my Outlook Express e-mails. I can only reach them at present on my Start menu. As I have no expertise can you please tell me in simple terms how I can add an icon that will enable me to access my e-mails directly?

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Hasan
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pfff... its not a Firefox problem

Open My Computer

  • go to C:\ drive
  • open Program Files folder
  • open Outlook Express folder
  • right-click msimn.exe file -> click Send To and select Desktop (create shortcut)

Check and tell if its working.

paulfulton
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Thank you for that but I may not have expressed my problem clearly. I have the shortcut on my desktop but that is not visible once I go to my home page or elsewhere on the net. With IE when on my home page I stiil had an icon at the top on which I would click to go straight to my e-mails. How do I restore this facility. I do apologise that I am a total dumbo in these matters. If you can help this idiot further it would be much appreciated.

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Firefox doesn't have an icon to open an email client which is installed on the users PC, but there is an add-on to add that feature to Firefox.

http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html

Read the instructions on that page for setting it up with Outlook Express.

Hasan
Hasan
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Use this add-on: Email This! 2.3.0

Check and tell if its working.

paulfulton
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I am grateful for the answers given but do not seem any further forward. I know I am a total computer numpty but the answers given still leave me confused. All I want is an icon which I can click on to bring up my Outlokk Express e-mails. Everything to which I have been referred (g-mail etc) seems far too complicated and largely irrelevant Please can someone please give me simple ABC directions in plain non-technical language to achieve what I want and which I had before I switched from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. Help, please!

Paul Fulton

Hasan
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Just install any of the add-on(extension) mentioned in the previous 2 replies. Then you will have an icon to access your Outlook Express emails.