Outlook Express 6 (OE6) for Windows Vista,Windows 7,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 R2
If you have tried Outlook 2010/2007/2003, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Becky, The Bat, Foxmail, Dream Mail ..., and still love Outlook Express 6, and still think it's your favorite email client, then this is the solution for you.
HOW IT WORKS:
The reason that OE6 cannot run in Vista or newer system, is Microsoft make some OE6 core DLLs incompatible, something called "DLL HELL".
Mainly these files: inetcomm.dll, msoert2.dll, msoeacct.dll, directdb.dll.
However, we cannot simply replace the system DLLs because that may make system or some applications stop working.
So the trick is to let OE6 load old DLLs in current directory when running, and leave system DLLs untouched, then everything should be ok.
The way to let this happen is to hijack NtQueryValueKey in ntdll.dll, then change the return Path to current directory if needed.
Microsoft provide a free tool to do this kind of job, so we just use it:
Detours.
HOW TO USE:
1. extract the zip file to a directory
2. run setup.bat as administrator
3. if you want to save password, you need to replace Protected Storage service with
writable version:
4. start msimn.exe
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HISTORY:
Version 0.1: first release