Default email and XP

[Guest]

Question

Can anyone please help?

How do you configure XP so Outlook Express can be the default email program?

I've already tried changing the settings in Outlook Express itself, but
that's not working. XP always wants to use "Outlook" as the default email
program, which automatically loads with MS Office, so you can't just
uninstall Outlook without having to uninstall MS Office altogether.

There must be some way to tweak something in XP so I could send webpages and
links from webpages with out XP telling me there is no profile set up in
Outlook.

Anyone know how?

Thanks for the support
Robert 12/06/05

 

[Merlin]

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[Galen]

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Question

Can anyone please help?

How do you configure XP so Outlook Express can be the default email
program?

I've already tried changing the settings in Outlook Express itself,
but that's not working. XP always wants to use "Outlook" as the
default email program, which automatically loads with MS Office, so
you can't just uninstall Outlook without having to uninstall MS
Office altogether.

There must be some way to tweak something in XP so I could send
webpages and links from webpages with out XP telling me there is no
profile set up in Outlook.

Anyone know how?

Thanks for the support
Robert 12/06/05

Open IE, click tools, options, click on Programs, in the drop down list set
the Email setting to Outlook Express, click Okay...

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

Tried that, don't work. Also tried the same within Outlook Express, no luck
with that either.

When I try both those options, as soon as I close Outlook Express, and
reopen it, it's back to "not" being the default email program

Any ideas? I had the same problem in old Windows 98, someone had me tweak
something in my registry and that did it, but with XP, I have no idea what to
do after the basics as suggested already.

Help??????

 

[Guest]

Ah Ha, I got the fix at XP "basics", from Paul who posted this fix:

Control Panel -> Add/remove programs -> Click the 'Set program access and
defaults' button on the left hand side.
Click the custom bar (or whichever bar is selected by a dot in the radio
button) look down the list till you see 'Choose a default mail application'
(or something similar) and select outlook express.


Thanks for everyones time and effort to help me find a solution.
Robert 12/07/05

 

[Merlin]

Try line 64 on this page http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm