Hi,

Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?

I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
please. Thanks.

XP SP3, IE7


Lee G.

"goldtech" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:651de5e6-0190-4cb5-b75c-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
>
> I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
> please. Thanks.
>
> XP SP3, IE7

> Lee G.


[Crossposted to OE General]

Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components. Uncheck
Outlook Express.

Whatever program you use for e-mail should be made the default e-mail
client.

Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults |
Custom + Down Arrow | Select the radio button for the program you use.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

Start>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs>Add/Remove Windows Components>Select
Outlook express, etc
--
Mad Mike


"goldtech" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
>
> I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
> please. Thanks.
>
> XP SP3, IE7
>
>
> Lee G.
>

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:33:50 -0800 (PST), goldtech wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
>
> I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
> please. Thanks.
>
> XP SP3, IE7

http://www.windowsreference.com/inte...dows-registry/

One can make the inbox.dbx file read only and OE then won't start.

steve

"Bruce Hagen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "goldtech" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:651de5e6-0190-4cb5-b75c-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
>> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
>> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
>> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
>>
>> I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
>> please. Thanks.
>>
>> XP SP3, IE7
>
>> Lee G.
>
>
> [Crossposted to OE General]
>
> Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components.
> Uncheck Outlook Express.
>
> Whatever program you use for e-mail should be made the default e-mail
> client.
>
> Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults |
> Custom + Down Arrow | Select the radio button for the program you use.
> --
>
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> Imperial Beach, CA
>

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:33:50 -0800 (PST), goldtech
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?


You've already gotten a couple of answers to your question, but I'll
make a couple of suggestions about your statement that "many people
like myself use web-based tools for email and newsgroups."

My point of view is that accessing either E-mail or newsgroups via a
web interface is far and away the worst possible way to do it. It's
the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method there is. I'm glad
that there is a web-based interface to my E-mail server, since I use
it--even though I don't like it--when I'm traveling and need to use a
public computer.

Bear in mind that Outlook Express comes with Windows XP, and is
therefore the only E-mail client or newsreader that many people have
tried. However there are many other choices for both E-mail and news,
and I think several of those choices are better. I strongly recommend
that you give them a try before you permanently settle on using a
web-based interface.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

What application should such links open in?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

goldtech wrote:
> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
>
> I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
> please. Thanks.
>
> XP SP3, IE7

"Bruce Hagen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "goldtech" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:651de5e6-0190-4cb5-b75c-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>

>> Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express?


Run... (e.g. press Win-R and enter)

msimn.exe /unreg

Note: I'm not sure how completely that can be undone.
Supposedly its reverse would do that

msimn.exe /reg

but when I did that I found that OE stopped being listed as an option
in XP's Set Program Access and Defaults Custom configuration.
(Run... control appwiz.cpl and click on and expand that list to see it
--before you use the /unreg command. <eg>)
Somehow (mysteriously) OE started appearing again there recently
but I don't have any idea what I would have done to have done that.
(In retrospect it might have been just installing XPsp3.)

Hmm... I suppose just expanding that Custom list and unchecking
Enable access to this program appropriately might have the same
effect as an explicit msimn.exe /unreg command. Haven't tested
that possibility.

; )


>> Every time I
>> accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
>> opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
>> email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
>>

>> I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
>> please. Thanks.


Or if you want to do the /unreg's effects more selectively,
switch to a cmd window (aka Command Prompt) and enter:

ftype | find /i "msimn"

then use the ftype command with each of those listed file types
to nullify them. In that case you might also want to issue
these two command pipelines to see if there are extensions
you would want to disassociate from the file types that you
were nullifying:

assoc | find /i "mail"

assoc | find /i "news"

In fact, I just realized that

ftype "Microsoft Internet Mail Message"=
and
ftype "Microsoft Internet News Message"=

probably don't work as nullifying commands,
(They seem to be too long for the command parser.)
nullifying the related assoc commands is probably
the most you could do manually for those file types.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
---


>>
>> XP SP3, IE7
>
>> Lee G.
>
>
> [Crossposted to OE General]
>
> Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components. Uncheck
> Outlook Express.
>
> Whatever program you use for e-mail should be made the default e-mail
> client.
>
> Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults |
> Custom + Down Arrow | Select the radio button for the program you use.
> --
>
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> Imperial Beach, CA
>

I use Outlook instead of Outlook Express (this is a work computer) and this
problem has bugged me as well. I was able to correct it on my home machine,
which had Vista, but at work, its XP, so no luck. My IT people can't get it
either and don't want me removing OE from the registry. Any other ideas would
be appreciated.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> What application should such links open in?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> goldtech wrote:
> > Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> > accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> > opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> > email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
> >
> > I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
> > please. Thanks.
> >
> > XP SP3, IE7
>

I'm on my work computer (XP) and Outlook is our default mail program. This
has bothered me as well. I was able to fix this problem on my home machine,
which is Vista, but no luck here. My IT people won't allow me to remove OE,
so any other ideas would be appreciated.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> What application should such links open in?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> goldtech wrote:
> > Is there any way to completely disable Outlook Express? Every time I
> > accidentally click on a newsgroup link or a mail link Outlook Express
> > opens. These days many people like myself use web-based tools for
> > email and newsgroups. How do I disable Outlook Express?
> >
> > I'll do a registry hack if there's no other way...just tell me how
> > please. Thanks.
> >
> > XP SP3, IE7
>