MMario -

There is no particular problem - or unusual difficulty in uninstalling Outlook or Outlook Express on any Windows machine I've seen. Just open add/remove programs in the control panel and click on them.

What can't be uninstalled is Internet Explorer - because it is intimately a part of Windows. You can uninstall a version of IE, but it will default back to some version (usually IE 5.0), since much of Windows uses the "hooks and handles" contained in IE.

Additional confusion comes from MSN Explorer, which is a separate program from Internet Explorer (neither of which, of course is the same thing as Windows Explorer). Mickey does seem to have a limited vocabulary.

Several of the "later" versions of MSN Explorer replace portions of IE in a way that makes it virtually impossible to "go back" to an earlier version, or to revert to "plain vanilla" IE. Some new "internet" features in MSNE are so tightly linked to "Windows" features that are replaced by the MSNE installation, that it's probably reformat time if you don't like what MSNE does. (And they won't tell you what it does until you've installed it.)

The majority of the "bugs" that are most frequently cited can be eliminated by getting current upgrades - sort of like downloading the latest V-sigs. If you haven't logged in and downloaded the latest security upgrades for IE, Outlook, OE, and Windows itself, you are just as (foolishly) vulnerable as those who ignore the need for AV programs with current signature files.

John