Jethro_uk put finger to keyboard:
An IE reset does not need a reboot; some settings, if changed, will require the app that uses them to be restarted.
If anything is running as a service then it can be easier to reboot than to restart the service and associated apps manually. Also with rebooting, you know that everything relevant has been restarted.
I'm sure that when I had done it, it said that the changes would only take effect when the *system* (as opposed to any individual app) was next started.
Roger Mills put finger to keyboard:
Oh, I'm sure that's what it told you. Like I said, it's easier and more foolproof than telling you to stop and start apps and/or services.
I wouldn't know, since I wouldn't be caught dead using OE. It probably doesn't matter a whole lot, though, since most people don't add email accounts with any frequency. It takes maybe 3 minutes to add an account in Outlook, assuming you take a break to check the TV or read a text from a friend, so even if it only takes a minute with OE, I'll gladly trade two minutes for the satisfaction of knowing I'm not using OE.
I prefer to have my email set to paranoid and never download external images. I can override it if I really want a look see but I don't trust anything these days not to have hostile intent. A fair proportion of inbound hostile emails have come from established correspondents whose machines have been compromised because their email client was buggy!
There was a time when a rather dumb net nanny was filtering content against various rude four letter words. The odds of one of them *not* occurring in a 1MB MIME encoded document are rather slim. Things improved a lot when they required white space on either side.
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