At 12/17/2001, Bryan Murphy wrote: >We are trying to create a pristine build to deploy out to our users and cant >find a way to completely rid ourselves of the plague that is outlook >express. > >Its not listed on add remove programs and when you manually delete the >directory it RECREATES IT! > >Anyone have neat registry hack or a trick on getting rid of this problem? microsoft doesn't make it easy. check out the following kb article: How to Manually Uninstall and Reinstall Outlook Express in Windows 2000 (Q263837) you also have to be careful because other ms products/patches/upgrades will go ahead and reinstall outlook without telling you. good luck, amaresh --- Amaresh R. Joshi | Systems Programmer http://www.msu.edu/user/joshia/ | College of Osteopathic Medicine (517)432-0496 | Michigan State University --------------------------------+-------------------------------------